Why Did Charles Lose the Civil War?
Why did King Charles lose the civil war? In April 1642, the Civil war started in England. The civil war ended up by King Charles losing the war. And in my essay I am going to talk about many reasons why Charles lost the civil war. In 1642 most people thought that King Charles would win the civil war, as he had won the battle of Edge hill, but unfortunately King Charles did not take advantage of this opportunity and marched to London. King Charles didn’t know what to do when it came to big decisions, in my opinion I believe he was indecisive with a weak personality, which was one of the main reasons why King Charles lost the English civil war. One of the mistakes that Charles has done is that he left leaving London. Without having full control of the capital he couldn’t control all of England. The effect of people around King Charles, was not positive. He was not surrounded with intelligent commanders as the Parliament. Instead King Charles suffered from having some dimwitted generals, like Lord Byron and Prince Rupert In 1642 Charles was aided by his nephew Prince Rupert, which is one of the reasons why King Charles lost the battle of Marston Moor. The biggest battle was the battle of Marston Moor, one of the main reasons why the parliament won is that Oliver Cromwell the commander of the parliament forces, commanded 2500 men to attack from East Anglia. In this battle only 300 men from parliament’s side were killed, while from the Royalist’s side 4000 men were killed and 1500 were taken prisoners. The victory of the Parliament came from the dim witted Prince Rupert, because when the Royalist’s reached Marston Moor they just had one hour till it became night, so Prince Rupert ordered his soldiers to rest so the roundheads took advantage of the Royalist resting and attacked them. This battle was written in Horrible Histories by the two historians Terry Deary and Neil Tonge “Prince Rupert came face to face with the roundheads on Marston Moor. By the time