Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did Parliament win the English Civil War
- The Navy
- Parliament have Complete Control
- Charles is cut off from Europe
- No chance of alliances
- This meant Charles had few me in comparison to Parliament
- no chance of supplies being imported from Europe
- Allies
- Parliament had support from the Scottish Presbytarians
- Parliament had an extra 22000 men from the Scots
- Royalists struggled to find allies as they were cut off from Europe
- Money
- Parliament had lots of taxes levied on the country to fund their cause
- The soldiers were paid
- This meant many more people wanted to join compared to the Royalists
- Royalists had very few resources and were not able to trade so had very little money
- Soldiers were not paid
- Not many people wanted to join the army
- Forces
- The royalist army was untrained
- The New Model Army
- Well trained
- Territory
- Parliament controlled far more populated areas than the Royalists
- Parliament had more people on there side as they had control over more people
- Parliament had control of London
- Parliament had control of London which was centre of trade so were able to trade and collect supplies to fund their cause
- Parliament had control over the areas which made weapons
- More resources than the Royalists
- Leadership
- Royalists
- Poor communication between leaders
- The royalist army was badly disciplined
- Price Rupert was a bad leader, but the Royalists would not demote him
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- Parliamentarians
- They used the system promotion by merit which meant the best leaders were promoted and bad leaders demoted
- This lead to two good leaders, Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas Fairfax