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

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.

This struggle is the most prominent event of the seventeenth century before the English Revolution, and was attended with the most important religious and political consequences.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John

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

This famous old building witnessed in this way the earliest steps that led to the English Revolution, and it is kept in quite good preservation.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel