English Revolution
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His lieutenant-colonel, William Henshaw, of Leicester, belonged to the line of Henshaws whose ancestor had fallen in the English Revolution in defence of popular rights and privileges.
From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.
The opposition of Amsterdam to an English Revolution of 1688. expedition, in the absence of danger from the side of France, was overcome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
The English Revolution of 1640 began in a defense of legal privileges and ended in a military despotism.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
The English Revolution of the seventeenth century was reversed when it undertook to reconstruct the mores of the English people.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
On the outbreak of the English Revolution, occasioned by the despotism of the first two Stuarts, crowds of Puritan exiles returned from Holland and North America to their old home.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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