English Civil War (The Cavalry Turn)

The English Civil War (22 August - 12 November 1642) was a brief military conflict between Royalists ("Cavaliers") and Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") over, principally, the manner of England's government. The war ended with a Royalist victory in November 1642 at the battle of Brentford. The war resulted in the permanent dissolution of Parliament by King Charles I, and established the constitutional precedent that the English monarch did not need the consent of Parliament to rule. Monarchs of England, and later of Great Britain, would rule with absolute power for over a century, until the British Revolution of 1792.