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Hace 5 días · George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle [a] KG PC JP (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier, who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A prominent military figure under the Commonwealth, his support was crucial to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, who rewarded him with the title Duke of ...
4 de may. de 2024 · 4 May 1654: General George Monck arrived in Edinburgh and was welcomed by the city magistrates who held a banquet for him. General Monck proclaimed the Ordinance for uniting Scotland into one Commonwealth with England issued by Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
The course and outcome of the English civil war shaped subsequent events in all three nations, led to the execution of the British king and in due course produced an English conquest of Ireland and Scotland and an enforced union of those two kingdoms with, but also very much under, England.
Hace 2 días · In the final stages of the Scottish campaign, Cromwell's men under George Monck sacked Dundee, killing up to 1,000 men and 140 women and children. Scotland was ruled from England during the Commonwealth and was kept under military occupation, with a line of fortifications sealing off the Highlands which had provided manpower for ...
Hace 6 días · In 1649, the unthinkable happened. After seven years of civil war, King Charles I of England was tried for treason, sentenced to death, and beheaded on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House in London. The monarchy was abolished and a republican Commonwealth declared, led by the victorious Parliamentary general Oliver Cromwell.
Hace 5 días · WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—THE CHAPELS AND ROYAL TOMBS. "A feeling sad came o'er me as I trod the sacred ground. Where Tudors and Plantagenets were lying all around; I stepp'd with noiseless foot, as though the sound of mortal tread. Might burst the bands of the dreamless sleep that wraps the mighty dead!" Ingoldsby Legends.
Hace 5 días · The military administration in Scotland, led by General George Monck, was relatively successful. It managed to enforce law and order, suppressing the banditry of the Moss-troopers and enforcing a form of limited religious toleration, but by introducing English judges largely suspending the Scots law.
