Though he ultimately got dismissed after losing the siege of Bristol, Prince Rupert of the Rhine helped command one of the sides in this war.
Not long before this conflict, John Pym led a successful effort to have the Earl of Strafford executed. Though he ultimately got dismissed after losing the siege of Bristol, Prince Rupert of the Rhine helped command one of the sides in this war. During this war, Thomas Fairfax commanded the more efficiently organized New Model Army, which won victories at Marston Moor and Naseby. For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century war which pitted Charles I's Cavalier army against the Roundheads partially led by Oliver Cromwell.
Not long before this conflict, John Pym led a successful effort to have the Earl of Strafford executed.
English Civil War