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[[File:civil2_5381.jpg|frame|The Poodles of War are about to be unleashed.]]
The English Civil War. Cromwell and Puritans, Roundheads and Cavaliers. Families divided against themselves. The King beheaded. Witchfinders-General.
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Not a single conflict, not confined to England, and most definitely not civil. It may be the most erroneously named conflict in history.
▲=== Depictions in fiction ===
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* [[Badass Army]]: The New Model Army.
* [[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.
* [[Color-Coded Armies]]: The two sides wore differently colored sashes. Unfortunately, they somehow decided on the not all that contrasting colors of red (Royalist) and orange (Parliamentarian).
* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Charles I.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: The Drogheda massacre.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]
* [[Off
* [[Saving Christmas]]: A rare instance that results in failure.
* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: Thomas Payne observed English history had "eight civil wars and nineteen rebellions" (with [[Indian Mutiny|at least one more]] since his time), but this one is given the definite article.
* [[War Is Hell]]
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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 system). Mind you, this only works because anyone else would have been tortured until they entered a plea and he was able to get away with it because not even all the Parlimentarians were down with torturing the king.
* [[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.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Averted by Judge Bradshaw. While the hat may or may not survive, contemporary accounts of his distinctive hat aren't flattering.
* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]: Knowing he's probably screwed no matter what he does, Charles I used his trial as a platform to argue against the shaky authority of his captors.
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