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The English civil war

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The english civil war (1640-1651) was a series of conflicts between Royalists loyal to King charles I and parlamentarians loyal to the house of parlament. 
In the years leading to the conflict, britain was becoming deeply devided as the king had ruled without any support from parlament, the english parlament was the kings advosory comittee and was vital for bringing in taxes for the crown. But charles had neglected aif from parlament and opted a self rule, This meant that he wasn't getting in enough money and tried to get money from other ways and sources, this of course wasn't aprechiated by the MP's in the parlament. 
Charles I also applied several religious reforms to the english church, making it more similar to the ceremonial catholic church, This greately angered much of the britain's protestant population.   
In 1640, due to rebellious unrest in scotland. King charles had to recall the parlament in order to raise money for an army, it was a political disaster as he quickly lost control over the frustrated members of parlament and when his attempt to stop it failed he fled from london and headed north to raise an army to crush the parlamentarians. The parlamentarians responded by raising an army of their own, The civil war had started. 
As war now was waged in england, people started to choose sides with some favored the traditional ways of the royalists and others favoring the reformatory views of the parlamentarians. 
As war now raged, The civil population was brutally dragged in in the form of slaughter and murder. many Royalists slaughtered civillians loyal to parlament, and parlamentarians slaughtered civillians loyal to the king. britain now looked very similar the the german kingdoms in the mainland where thousands of civillians were dying the ongoing 30 years war. The country was quickly falling into chaos as the war dragged on.
In 1646, after 6 years of war, The parlament finally ended up victorious. King charles was imprisoned. But he later escaped and prompted a second civil war in 1648. The second civil war was short lived as parlamentary once again crushed the royalists. 
King charles was now put on trial for high treason and was executed. following the king's execution, a military commander named named Oliver Cromwell now ascended to power. 

In 1649, yet another civil war broke out as the now dead king's son, Charles II marched into england with an army from scottland. But Cromwell eventually defeated this royalist forced and charles fled into exile. With the third civil war over and with no king, Britain now became a republic known as the Commonwealth of England. However, in 1660 after years of internal fighting and dispytes, Charles II returned to england and was crowned king. Though once again under monarchy rule, the wars had left an impression on britain, and due to the parlament bringing charles back, it laid the foundation of a parlamentary monarchy, with parlament co ruling with the king. 

Of course this is only a short text of the war as there's way more info to it than this petty text. 

you can find more info of the war in this documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jfpg…
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What can I say about this more than it is quite an accurate gmod representation of both warfare during the 1600's as well as a good representation of the English Civil War (1640-1651)? Many of the characters are spot on with appearances, the battle tactics are accurate for the time it's supposed to represent and overall it's an enjoyable picture. I wish I could have seen more flags though as well as I wish that the pikes were longer. The neckwear could as well have been better but this is a nitpick since I myself know how hard it is to recreate that stuff in gmod. Some clothing items are clipping through each other as well at places and some items are coloured wrong (the belt-thingy that is red for an example). Other than that, the enviromental build here is amazing and surely adds to the historical accuracy. Continue like this.