English Civil War (The Cavalry Turn)

English Civil War
Prince Rupert leads the Royalist cavalry at the battle of Edgehill
Date 22 August - 12 November 1642 Location England Result Royalist victory Maintenance of the absolutist monarchy Permanent dissolution of Parliament Mass exodus of Puritans and Presbyterians from England Outbreak of Covenanter Uprising
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Charles I Prince Rupert	Earl of Essex (POW) Oliver Cromwell †

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.