The English Civil War Explained 

dont you think he ooks a lot like tom hardy

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sjewitt22 I believe it’s Popham

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stole the words from my mouth

@@deez1321 Too be fair most countries historical positions are in Britain or at least Europe not the country of origin.

@Athos Aramis Okay sweetheart.

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It’s a cavalier hat, though a lot of people wear them cocked

At the beginning of the war, the Earl of Essex was Captain-General of the Parliamentarian field army. Essex's heraldic colours included the unusual (in heraldic terms) colour of tawny orange, and accordingly he issued coats in that colour to his regiment, and the Parliamentarian faction used orange sashes as their field sign for the same reason. You're not wrong, though: if you were lucky, you might be from a regiment that had an identifiable uniform, like Essex's regiment or Prince Rupert's Bluecoats. If you were from a less well-supplied regiment, or if you got separated from your friends, or if (God forbid!) you were fighting in bad light and it was hard to make out what colour *anybody's* sash was... well, suffice to say that friendly fire was an issue.

@@stephenwood6663 With the civil war being very interesting to me, I read somewhere that when the new model army came about in 1645 the sashes became blue, the colour of Fairfax’s regiment as he was now commander in chief of the army due to Essex being removed when Self Denying Ordinance was passed by parliament, am I right in thinking this was the case that the sash colour changed when fairfax took charge of the army, and in 1649 when he resigned and Cromwell took charge of the army what colour did the sash become then (or was there one)?

@@openshutterfilms Light blue sashes seems very likely while the New Model were being commanded by Thomas Fairfax, yes. There are allusions to the New Model having dark red sashes by the end of the war, which, if true, must have caused at least a few friendly fire incidents, since red was the favoured colour of the Royalists, too.

Jeff Mansfield It’s since became more known as ‘the Wars of the Three Kingdoms’- a good, if imperfect, umbrella term, as it includes the Bishops’ Wars of Scotland (there were 2), the Irish ‘Rebellion’ & finally, the three English Civil Wars.... as I went to school in Australia- I never actually learnt any of this in school, it came about because of my own research into the period & subject.

In essence it was, just one bunch of landed gentry beating the crap out of another load of landed gentry with everyone else caught in the middle and laced with religious paranoia to boot. The closest England got to being a republic but they just couldn't get their act together.

Go home old man.

So desperate were you to sound intelligent that you ignored what he actually said. He wasn't talking about who was leading the sides at the beginning of the war; you just heard that because a moment earlier he was talking about the date the war started. 'Who's fighting in the war' was a separate question.

The Puritans among the Parliamentarian forces didn't like the way Christmas was celebrated, they saw it as a "Papist pantomime" based on pagan traditions. Not exactly wrong, but at the same time our modern conceptions of the holiday are very different.

England or the UK has many many accents, you put a Jordy in a room with a southerner like someone from London and chances are they wont understand one another, you get Yorkshire, scouse, Scottish is practically a language in it's own same with Irish although it's still English at the end of the day. Many people in the world think us brits all speak like toffs with southern pommy accents. But we dont

Definitely an English accent.

Where are you from that this accent is not understandable?

This is standard English. I understand him just fine.

Probably just coincidence that his sword looks similar to Kastane