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English Civil War

noun

  1. the war (1642–46) between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, sometimes extended to include the events of the period 1646–48.


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Further, however, than the end of the great English Civil War of the fifteenth century, it is not our task to trace its use.

Complaints as to the inefficiency of these men are frequent in the years preceding the English Civil War.

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