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L’un des premiers gestes à caractère non seulement déchristianisateur mais aussi antiroyaliste fut la sainte ampoule brisée à Reims par le représentant Rühl le 7 octobre 1793.

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2021-04-21

Today in the French republican calendar is pigeon day, good reason to honour the ‘Jacobin pigeon’ with its regal (not royalist) mane

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2021-04-15

📅#OTD 1644, Sir Thomas Fairfax takes
He captures the royalist commander, John Belasis & 2000 of his men.
Fairfax describes how this 'Blow hath made us Masters of the Field in Yorkeshire' but says there is 'not Paper enough in the Town to Write in a Sheet ...

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2021-04-11

2/2 A royalist was then hanged & the Prince challenged to shoot him down.
A well-timed letter from the King urged his nephew to avoid 'spilling innocent blood' and a desire for 'good, happiness, and peaceable government'.
Upon surrender, Rupert treated the garrison with respect.

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2021-04-10

9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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2021-04-09

📅#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

Mais Elisabeth est royaliste, et à l'aube de la Révolution Française, elle est contrainte de fuir la France avec sa fille, Julie. Elle parcourt l'Europe, allant de cour en cour auprès des souverains qui louent ses talents de portraitiste, à l'image de l'impératrice de Russie.

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2021-03-30

29 March 1644 was the Battle of Cheriton (Alresford) in Hampshire. Sir William Waller defeated Lord Hopton and Lord Forth, ending the Royalist advance in the south-east.

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2021-03-29

Napoleon believed (incorrectly) that D'Enghien was part of a royalist conspiracy to overthrow him. The murder sent shock waves through Europe's aristocracy and became a rallying cry to oppose Bonaparte (as seen in these prints that emphasise the duke's muder/martyrdom.

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2021-03-21

After defending Thionville and Dunkirk, he had by 1796 led the liberation of Alsace (despite of Pichegru), had been imprisoned by Saint-Just, had masterfully crushed the most ambitious British / Royalist expedition in France and finally smartly pacified the Vendee. He ruled.

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2021-03-20

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

in 1645 Royalist commander Marmaduke Langdale defeats the Roundheads at Melton Mowbray. Not exactly the laughing cavalier is he?

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2021-02-26

Two marriage portraits, Van Dyck school & by Lely. 1. Paul, 2nd Viscount Bayning with wife Penelope. 2. Daughter Anne was 1st wife of Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford. When he was confined to the Tower as a Royalist spy, devoted Anne joined him & died there.

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2021-02-14

Nell Gwyn's parentage remains uncertain: her father might have been a royalist officer, Captain Gwyn, her grandfather possibly a canon of .
Pepys thought her a fine comic actress, but not so good in more dramatic parts
1651

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2021-02-02

Rare Gold Royalist badge c1649
Concealed on a Royalist after execution of King Charles I, to remember him. All Items bearing King's image forbidden by Parliament & seen as a threat.
{Charles I & Queen Henrietta Maria - Thomas Rawlins)

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2021-01-31

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

3 December 1642 The Earl of Newcastle entered securing it for King Charles I. It would remain a Royalist stronghold for the next two years.

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2020-12-03