Tudor & Early Stuart Conflict — Armada, Plot & Road to Civil War

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Tudor & Early Stuart Conflict — Armada, Plot & Road to Civil War

The English Civil War did not appear from nowhere. This hub connects Elizabethan war with Spain, the Spanish Armada, the religious tensions of 1605 and the political culture inherited by the early Stuarts.

• Spanish Armada 1588
• Gunpowder Plot 1605
• Charles I & the Road to Civil War
• Thirty Years’ War 1618–48 — the wider European pike-and-shot war
• Breitenfeld 1631 — Gustavus Adolphus, Tilly and tactical flexibility

Continue beyond the Civil Wars

Follow the military and political system forward into the Revolution Settlement and the eighteenth-century standing army.

• Britain & Europe 1688–1746 — Glorious Revolution, Marlborough and Jacobites