English Revolution
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During the decade preceding the English Revolution only the heroic resistance of this body saved the liberal institutions of the colony from destruction at the hands of Charles II and James II.
From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
Thus prudently and calmly was effected our great English Revolution.
From William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
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 Friedrich Engels
The opprobrious and ludicrous nickname of “the Rump,” stigmatised a faction which played the same part in the English Revolution as the “Montagne” of the Jacobins did in the French.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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
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