Articles related to "Bishops War"

Against the advice of many, Charles organized another English army in 1640 to go and fight the Scottish Covenanters.

In the wake of the Prayer Book Crisis, the Scottish Convenanter army marched to England. Charles I formed his own rag-tag army to meet them in the first of two Bishop's W

In 1640, Charles I called his first Parliament in eleven years. Instead of getting the funding he wanted for war with Scotland, he got an ear-full of English indignation.

Undoubtedly, the English Civil War was caused by a mixture of both short term and long term issues that eventually led to the outbreak of fighting during 1642.