Why did Parliament win the English Civil War

Description

Mind Map on Why did Parliament win the English Civil War, created by georgemd on 30/03/2014.
georgemd
Mind Map by georgemd, updated more than 1 year ago
georgemd
Created by georgemd over 10 years ago
137
3

Resource summary

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

                              Similar

                              Gothic vocabulary
                              lizzie.lambrou
                              Themes in Macbeth
                              annasc0tt
                              A2 Organic Chemistry - Reactions
                              yannycollins
                              GCSE AQA Biology 1 Adaptations, Competition & Environmental Change
                              Lilac Potato
                              Urbanisation
                              Jess Molyneux
                              GCSE Biology B1 (OCR)
                              Usman Rauf
                              GCSE AQA Biology 2 DNA & Cell Division
                              Lilac Potato
                              GCSE Computing: Hardware
                              Yasmin F
                              Physics Review!
                              Nicholas Weiss
                              INCONSISTENCIES IN JAY'S STORY
                              Loren Ellis