Compare And Contrast The Strategy And Tactics Of The English Civil War

In 1957, Lord Darnley was murdered and Queen Mary was forced to renounce her throne. He made her son King of Scotland. He became the official King of Scotland when he was one year old. James was a devout scholar who studied the English language. The kingdom was strong and centralized during his rule, and he eventually married Anne of Denmark. He was a devout Protestant, and fought against the Puritans who tried to get rid of Roman practices in the church. He was not liked much, because of favoritism, and his schemes to get an alliance with Spain. During his rule, William Ruthven, one of the leaders of the Church of Scotland, kidnapped James, and held him captive for almost a year. When James finally escaped, he did not take any more chances, and executed William. With Queen Elizabeth the First aging, James realized that he had the highest chance of becoming the King. The only problem was that his mother, Mary, was still in live. She was prosecuted, and then executed. Once Elizabeth died, we move onto the chapter of King James’ life.

Upon the death of beloved Queen Elizabeth in England, her cousin James I was announced the new king of England. As a Catholic from the rival nation Scotland, King James I was inherently distrusted by his Anglican subjects, and his guarded, haughty personality only further decreased his popularity (Matthew). King James was also known for his strong belief in the Divine Right of Kings, in which the king is second only to God (Matthew). However, his greatest disadvantage was that he was previously Catholic; the English were never truly confident in his conversion to the Anglican Church (Matthew). Skeptical,

African Americans seemed to only come at the mercy of the Whites when they thought they were free. Freedman, something that should be the same for all natural born citizens and includes the right to owning their own property, live life as they like, able to vote, and to work earning fair wages.

James whom was the side of England and the parliament were puritan. To make matter worse, James infuriated Parliament with his son’s marriage to catholic princess Queen Elizabeth. This resulted on commoners being upset over how the government should be ran.

The English Civil War was a complicated, intellectual war between the two most powerful forces in England: Parliament and the King. Conflicts between the two powers began when King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1625 because they would not give him the money he demanded to fund his war against Spain. Parliament, who was lead by John Pym, felt that the King was showing favouritism towards the Roman Catholics, especially since Charles had recently married the Roman Catholic French Princess. Although Charles recalled Parliament in 1626, he proceeded to dissolve the second Parliament mainly because it attempted to impeach him. John Pym, who had been prevented from being elected to the second Parliament, was

Despite the unexpected hardships the Union faced, the Civil War ended with an overwhelming Union victory. However, due to the context of total war, the South was left in shambles. Following the Civil War was an Era known as Reconstruction-the process of Southern states to be reentered into the United States. What started as a peaceful reconciliation almost ignited a whole new Civil War. Although both the North and the South sparked tremendous amounts of damage, which destroyed Reconstruction the most? The South destroyed Reconstruction due to their strong opposition to the idea of Reconstruction and free civil rights for slaves.

The 13th Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment (42nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment) were said to be superior marksmen, and during the first year of the Civil War, they distinguished themselves as fighters and sharpshooters. They were organized into the 149th and 150th Regiments of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Their most important contribution to the Battle of Gettysburg occurred on McPherson's Ridge on July 1, 1863, where they fought one of the most desperate actions of the battle. During the battle, the regiment drew heavy artillery fire from Confederate guns. The shellfire was unremitting. The regiment held their ground and put up the fight of their life until the Union line collapsed and the Confederates forced them to fall back. The "Bucktails" defense at McPherson's Ridge bought valuable time for more Union units to arrive in the area and deploy for the ultimate Union victory at Gettysburg.

Civil War is defined as a war between citizens of the same country. When the two parties are from the same country there are bound to be major advantages and disadvantages to both sides. The South had a very recognizable advantage fighting on the defensive territory and being familiar with the land while the North was essentially coming in blind. While this would have been an advantage for the South, the North had an advantage themselves, they outnumbered the South. With both sides having huge advantages and disadvantages, it makes one think of the ‘what if’s”. Both the good and bad of each side played a crucial role of the outcome. The side that won would have an impact on the entire country.

The victory of the Civil War in 1865 may have given slaves their freedom, but the progression of rebuilding the South brought about a new set of substantial challenges for America. The death of President Abraham Lincoln took American by surprise. President Lincoln was not clear of his plan of Reconstruction; however, Lincoln did state that he had a simple plan for rebuilding. After the death of Abraham Lincoln everyone was confused on how to merge two pieces of the country back together. When Andrew Johnson took over presidency he made the decision to follow through with the simple plans that Abraham Lincoln had stated. However, the Congress had a different plan for Reconstruction; the Congress wanted to make the south pay for what they had done. The Congress and President Johnson had several similarities and differences in the reconstruction plan, the Republicans had strong determination to control the South and prior to 1877 the Republicans had

The introduction of steam and iron reshaped and defined new tactics during the 1815-1866 time period with emphasis on the Civil War. Primarily, the invention of the steam engine and rifled artillery forged from iron would define a new tactical advantage for both Confederate and Union Armies. Furthermore, these two new inventions would also greatly increase the effects of speed, lethality, and mass at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels during the Civil War.

After the long battles that made up the infamous, Civil War, the North ended up taking the victory after the South surrendered. The North won the civil war with the help of having an advanced industrial economy rather than an environmental economy. The industrial economy brought in people because of the job opportunities and because of this the population of the North sky rocketed. Also, the agricultural or environmental economy in the south limited the army and were less advanced with technology. Their loss with technology helped the North since they did have the knowledge, they overpowered the South with that kind of economy.

The north and south had many different opinions which ultimately lead to a war between them during the Antebellum Period. Although they could not see eye to eye on many topics the north and south did have some similarities, and they had to work together. Not only did they disagree on many things they were overall very different.

1. The North after the Civil War were festering with new ideas. There was rebuilding in need, the economy for the North was very beneficial and new markets and factories were producing more products than ever. With the booming of factories, bankers and investors made profits and used the money for funding for better inventions and better quality ways to produce goods. The industry grew and powered more natural resources, many cities were established and more lived in urban areas.

The American Civil War was one of the deadliest wars in American history, resulting in 620,000 casualties of soldiers and undetermined number of civilian casualties. Southern slave states declared their withdrawal from United States and formed the Confederate States of America; also know as “The Confederacy.” Northern twenty states free of slavery and five slave states in north came to knows as the Union. Many strategy and tactics were used during the American Civil War. In order to understand the military strategy and tactics of Union and the Confederacy, one must understand the manpower each side had, previous war experience of the commanding officers on both side, and using rivers and railroad to their advantages.

‘The English civil war started in 1642, primarily because of religious disagreements’. How far do you agree with this statement?