Reasons for parliamentary victory in 1st Civil war
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- Created on: 07-01-14 16:00
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- Reasons for Parliamentary victory in Civil War
- Control of London/ South East
- C mistake- didn't march on London immediately after B of Edgehill Oct 1642
- P had wealthiest part of country, London economic & trade centre of country
- P more likely to win long drawn out war- C too reliant on swift victory
- Lack of finance became constant theme of royalist war effort
- P had wealthiest part of country, London economic & trade centre of country
- Financing war
- Poor roy leadership- C anxious not to break with tradition, relient on gifts, plundering and free quarter- unpopular with people
- C eventually turned to par methods- too late
- Didn't control enough of country- North- poor
- Hyde- 'Canker of Want'
- C eventually turned to par methods- too late
- Pym- Architect of parliamentary victory
- Monthly assessment- £90,000 per month
- Exercise duty
- County committes- wide ranging authority, not gentry 'social upstarts'
- Poor roy leadership- C anxious not to break with tradition, relient on gifts, plundering and free quarter- unpopular with people
- Alliances
- Alliance with Scots Covenanters
- Establishing Presbyterian church
- 21,000 covenanter army- Proved decisive at Battle of Marston Moor 1644
- Cessation 1643
- Propaganda disaster- confirmed fears of popish plot and catholic influence in court
- Poor quality army- cam in small groups
- Charles and Irish rebs- army in return for cath toleration in IRE.
- Alliance with Scots Covenanters
- Leadership
- C- failed to provide decisive leadership- factional conflict developed
- Peace negotiations failed- C felt could win 'war of attrition'
- Pym- held parliament together- Peace and war group- died in 1643 disaster,
- After death- Par leadership as bad as C
- Lostwithiel-Essex
- Newbury- Manchester
- Split deepened after quarrel Comwell/ Manchester
- After death- Par leadership as bad as C
- C- failed to provide decisive leadership- factional conflict developed
- Parliamentary decisions of 1645
- April- Self-denying ordinance
- Removed incompetent military leadership
- Feb- New Model Army Ordiance
- National, 'go anywhere' army, removed problem of regionalism
- Well and regularly paid- unlikely to plunder
- Decisive at Naesby June1645- King degeated
- April- Self-denying ordinance
- Control of London/ South East
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