English Revolution

American  

noun

1. the events of 1688–89 by which James II was expelled and the sovereignty conferred on William and Mary.

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Example Sentences

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.

Rosseau, Voltaire, and Diderot ushered in the French Revolution; in similar fashion the English Revolution is heralded by William Morris and Francis Adams.”—F.

From Songs of the Army of the Night by Adams, Francis William Lauderdale

Thus there came into being at the time of the German Reformation and the Peasant War the party of Thomas Munzer, in the great English Revolution the Levellers, and in the great French Revolution, Baboeuf.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich

The English Revolution of 1689 produced a change.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

At the period of the English Revolution," says this consummate hypocrite, Brownson, "the mass of the English people were buried in the grossest ignorance.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William