Question

The English Civil War was a brutal conflict that uprooted the strongest country in Europe.

1. Who fought in the war?

2. Who were the leaders of each side?

3. What were the results?

Answer 1

1. British and Irish dominions
2. between supporters of the monarchy of Charles I (and his son and successor, Charles II) and opposing groups in each of Charles’s kingdoms, including Parliamentarians in England, Covenanters in Scotland, and Confederates in Ireland.

The outcome was threefold: the trial and the execution of Charles I (1649); the exile of his son, Charles II (1651); and the replacement of English monarchy with the Commonwealth of England, which from 1653 (as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland)