✦ History

Part of Wars of the Three Kingdoms

First English Civil War

1642 – 1646

Result Parliamentarian victory

Royalists and Parliamentarians, the latter joined by Scottish Covenanters, fought across England and Wales; Parliament won.

Overview Contemporaries

Royalists (Cavaliers)

Parliamentarians (Roundheads)

Royalists (Cavaliers)
Parliamentarians (Roundheads)
Covenanters
Charles I of England military commander Prince Rupert of the Rhine military commander William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle military commander
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex military commander Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester military commander Oliver Cromwell military commander Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven military commander Thomas Fairfax military commander

Battles 2