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Council of War

England · Warfare / Civil War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1642–1650Date range
4Named people
3Places

Chronological records

1642

Charles I22 October 1642

Edgecote · Warfare / Civil War

The Royalist council plans to secure Banbury and Oxford before advancing farther.

Charles I22 October 1642

Edgecote · Warfare / Civil War

The Royalist council plans to secure Banbury and Oxford before advancing farther.

1644

William Cavendish Devonshire, 1st10 November 1644

Warfare / Civil War

"if we beat the King 99 x he would be King still, if he beat us we should be hanged"

Oliver Cromwell10 November 1644

Warfare / Civil War

Advises a military defeat of the King after Manchester fails to persue him in battle

1645

Charles I19 May 1645

Warfare / Civil War

Charles decides to send Goring south west while he & Rupert head nth

Charles I14 June 1645

Harborough · Warfare / Civil War

Calls a Council of War & decides to fight against Fairfax south of Market Harborough

1650

George Monck Albemarle, 1st2 September 1650

Dunbar · Warfare / Civil War

Monck advises Cromwell before the Parliamentarian attack on the Scottish army at Dunbar.

Names involved

Charles IGeorge Monck Albemarle, 1stOliver CromwellWilliam Cavendish Devonshire, 1st

Provenance

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