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2025 marks 400 years since King Charles I's accession and marriage. This double anniversary year will also see the release of a biography about his nephew, Prince Rupert.
Prince Rupert was King Charles I's nephew and commanded the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. This hand-forged bit may have been used locally at the sieges at Lichfield and Rushall ...
NEWARK, ENGLAND—The Newark Advertiser reports that an English Civil Wars–era military earthwork, one of a network of 12 seventeenth-century earthworks placed around the strategic city of ...
Prince Rupert, on the other hand, was a soldier from his fourteenth year, and grew to manhood in the Germany of the Thirty Years’ War, where slaughter and pillage seared the senses into ...
Known as ‘the Geneva of the North’ due to its staunchly Puritan population, Bolton was attacked in May, 1644 by forces led by King Charles’ nephew, the dashing Prince Rupert, on his way to ...
News; Local News; Digbeth; The day Birmingham became a bloody battlefield 370 years ago today Prince Rupert's Royalists clashed with Birmingham residents during the English Civil War ...
Two villages near York are to be transformed as re-enactors commemorate possibly the largest battle fought on English soil. It is estimated that 46,000 men fought at Marston Moor on 2 July 1644.
A painting shows Prince Rupert’s infamous dog, ... Quiz answer: the English Civil War took place from 1642–1651 . A free National Civil War Trail app can also be downloaded.