Pride’s Purge: Colonel Thomas Pride, of the (Puritan) New Model Army, enters the elective House of Commons, arrests 45 Members, and disperses royalists, Presbyterians and other non-Puritan Members, along with vociferous critics of Oliver Cromwell. This transforms the 470-Member “Long Parliament” to the 80-Member “Rump Parliament.”
NOTE: This was the only military coup in British history.
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 2:277.
Pride’s Purge – Wikipedia
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Timeline of the English Civil War – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_English_Civil_War
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