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📅#OTD 1648, royalist Marmaduke Langdale takes with 120 horse.
The Mayor had the drawbridge raised, but let it down upon sight of Langdale's commission from the Prince of Wales.
Next day, royalists take offering the Scottish army a route into England

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2021-04-28

📅#OTD 1643, Prince Rupert storms
Parliament claimed that Rupert burned 80 houses & put 'divers to the Sword'.
The royalists accepted one or two houses were burned, but insisted that Rupert ordered 'the quenching of the fire' after victory.

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2021-04-03

18 March 1643 Royalist forces under the Earl of Derby summoned Lancaster to surrender, to be rejected by the Mayor. "Enraged to see their sauciness" the Royalists plundered much of the town but were unable to capture the castle. (NPG)

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2021-03-18

🔲1795- Royalist👑Protests ran high in Paris, The Directory who maintained🇫🇷decided to end it!

🔲Director, Paul Barras, called in Brigadier General, to Canon💣Royalists.

🔲W/ "'a whiff of Grapeshot'" Napoleon was Promoted to Major General.

Shown in

10/23

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2021-03-16

🔲1793- @ 24, Napoleon was promoted to Brigadier General by Robespierre for his Valiant efforts in 8/23

🔲Robespierre-Blood-crazed Lunatic who murdered 1000s of 🇫🇷 out of fear, was🔫+Guillotined

🔲Royalists wanted Monarchy back. Napoleon was tasked to deal w/ this👇

9/23

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2021-03-16

18 December 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

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2020-12-18

Here is a Redraw of a scene from the game: The Henry Stickmin Collection - RHM design is made by: axl87 (Instagram)

🤖 Take any royalists to the brig 🦾

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2020-12-16

Father Christmas wrote a pamphlet in 1652 decrying the Puritan revolution which had banished him from England. His association with Royalists, merry making, drinking, the spirit of rebellion and gluttony made him a Royalist culture war icon.

Time to reclaim this tradition!

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2020-11-30

📅#OTD 1645, Shelford Priory, Nottinghamshire.
Sydenham Poyntz & John Hutchinson take 30 minutes to storm the royalist house & burn it. They kill 160 defenders.
Royalists sniping from the church tower of St Peter & St Paul's are smoked out.

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2020-11-03

10 July 1645 Royalist forces under Lord George Goring were routed at the Battle of Langport, Somerset by the New Modelled Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax. Fleeing Royalists set upon by local clubmen in retribution for their depredations on the area.

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2020-07-10

1643: Royalists out of Newark attack Lord Willoughby at Grantham. In his first independent action as a cavalry commander, Colonel Oliver Cromwell leads a charge which routs the Royalist force.

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2020-05-13

OTD in 1643, Earl of Essex besieged Reading. Disaster dogged the Royalists. Governor Aston struck on the head in a cannonade (roof tile) & knocked unconscious. His deputy surrenders 10 days later despite the King attacking Essex outside town. Was it treachery?

Essex L & Aston R

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2020-04-15

Now they have sent a positive case of to Scotland. Wrapped in a royal. No testing for the frontline workers yet this is tested🤔 Even royalists must smell that.

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2020-03-25

Adding colour to my illustration of Royalists constructing the Civil War defences at Sandal Castle. https://t.co/w3V5UYUS5w

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2020-01-07

A of Royalists camped in Kings Norton Park. Alternatively, some having a barbecue.

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2016-05-11