The Battle of Worcester

The battle of worcester marks the end of the civil wars. The royalists are defeated. Charles the second, who is currently hiding in an oak tree somewhere, will make his triumphant return to london and finally be crowned king of england. In a dispatch to parliament on september fourth, cromwell summed up the war weariness his nation by calling the battle a crowning mercy. Next time, we will grapple with the implications of post monarchy britain as cromwell and his associates scramble madly from one political experiment to the next.