The English Civil War
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How Does the War Begin?
There is huge fighting, most and more edge-hill in all these horrific battles. Why does the war start? Well, I mean, there's a lot of political mistakes which happen. The crucial thing politically about the Irish rebellion is it means that someone has to raise an army because an army has to go over and put it down. By that point, the parliamentarians and the royalists neither can trust each other to be in charge of an army.
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