Charles's Execution

Charles's biggest strategic error, as with so many christian men of power, was the inability to punish his enemies if they needed to be punished. As robert toomb said in his the english and their history, he could be persuaded to plunge into reckless actions, but repeatedly drew back when things went wrong. Under charles, political and religious executions was zero. And he knuckled under to parliament, killing one of his chief ministers, the earl of strafford, through a bill of attainder, coerced by mob violence. Like nicholas the second romanov, charles might have done better mowing down his enemies at the right moment.