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

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

Mackintosh, in his "History of the English Revolution of 1688," has truly termed the question of when subjects are justified in making war on their sovereign, "a tremendous problem."

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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 Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

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.

The English Revolution of 1689 produced a change.

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