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@Woo100 @effjayem @Hollie_Babbitt @Artemisapphire @17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @Cromwellorg @_paullay @MirandaMalins @SGMacleanauthor @Temulkar @1642Author @ConflictArchaeo @ProfTonyPollard Although it's interesting that the iconography is often recycled. Here's a 1655 engraving of Cromwell that's effectively his head photoshopped onto a Van Dyck portrait of Charles... 😀
#OnThisDay 11 October 1643 was the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire, where Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell defeated Sir John Henderson. As well as helping secure Lincolnshire, it started a partnership which would win the First #EnglishCivilWar.
#OnThisDay 9 October 1643 Parliamentary forces under the Earl of Manchester, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell were besieging Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 29 September 1654, Lord Protector Oliver #Cromwell narrowly escaped death or serious injury in a coaching accident in Hyde Park. Equestrian portrait of Cromwell c.1657 overlooking #London from our collection. #OTD #17thCentury #history #museums
#OnThisDay 18 September 1644 was the Battle of Montgomery, the largest battle fought in Wales during the #BritishCivilWars. Royalist forces under Lord Byron were defeated by Sir John Meldrum, leaving the Parliamentarians in control of central Wales. #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 14 September 1645 King Charles I, influenced by Prince Rupert's enemies at court, dismissed him from his service for surrendering Bristol. Rupert would subsequently demand and be exonerated by a Court Martial. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 11 September 1645, Prince Rupert surrendered #Bristol, the last Royalist port, to Sir Thomas Fairfax. Rupert had no option due to disease and being outgunned, but a furious Charles I stripped him of his offices. Images from our collection. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury
#OnThisDay 7 September 1642 the Royalist commander of #Portsmouth George Goring surrendered the town under generous terms to Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury Thread 1/2
#OnThisDay 18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure. #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 13 August 1659 part of Booth's Uprising, a Royalist insurrection against the republic, took place when Viscount Mordaunt declared for the King at Barnstead Down in Surrey. He only raised 80 men, who melted away as soon as government troops appeared. #17thCentury #OTD