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* [[Bar Brawl]]: To this day the Coldstreams and the Grenadiers parade at opposing ends of a review because one fought for Parliament and the other for the King and it would have been annoying if they remembered it too harshly.
* [[The City vs. the Country]]: London and the Burgher class generally tended to take the Roundhead side, the rural regions and a few smaller cities the Royal side. This was repeated in Scotland where Highlanders took the Royal side and Lowlanders the Parliament. Obviously there were more then a few twists about that.
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* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Charles I.
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* [[A Fool for a Client]]: Not like he had much of a choice in the matter.
* [[Courtroom Antics]]: Despite the predetermined outcome Charles I manages to thoroughly embarrass his soon to be executioners and crack holes in their authority through his unorthodox pro se legal defense of not entering a plea and repeatedly questioning the court's authority (as it was clearly not continuing actions of the established legal
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: There's little doubt the trial of King Charles I didn't have its mind made up before it started.
* [[List of Transgressions]]: Read by John Cook, multiple times.
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