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Charles v. CromwellCharles v.CromwellYou may be surprised to have this question in the British history section since perhaps you had only heard of the American Civil WarCivil War, American. I can remember seeing the movie Cromwell as a young boy and being horrified by the scene of the beheading of Charles ICharles I.

And now you already have one grisly result of the Civil War: Charles ICharles I was the first European monarch to have been formally tried and then executed as a traitor. Causes of the Civil War were Charles’ rule without the consent of Parliament and illegal taxation and the increasing powerpower of the opponents led by Oliver CromwellCromwell, Oliver. Cromwell led the Parliamentarians – also called RoundheadsRoundheads because of their short haircuts as sign of their devout PuritanPuritan status – against the King. The supporters of the King and monarchy, called the CavaliersCavaliers, had longer fashionable hair styles. After Charles’ execution a republic was declared, called the CommonwealthCommonwealth (Cromwell)Commonwealth of EnglandEngland, which then became a “ProtectorateProtectorate” – but who was being protected from whom? Cromwell began acting more and more like a king and dictator. The English soon had enough of the Puritan tradition started by Oliver Cromwell and continued by his less competent son, Richard, and longed for a monarchy again.