Talk:Monmouth Rebellion

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[edit] Pitched Battle

From the page:

The battle of Sedgemoor is often referred to as the last battle fought on English soil, but this is incorrect: the Battle of Preston in Lancashire was fought on 14 November 1715, during the First Jacobite Rebellion, and the Second Jacobite Rebellion saw a minor engagement at Clifton Moor near Penrith in Cumbria on 18 December 1745.

It was not the last engagement fought on English soil but did either of the other two count as pitched battles? If not then if Sedgemoor was a pitched battle, it was the last pitched battle fought on English soil.

See:

• wiktionary battle: Pitched battle = one in which the armies are previously drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the forces.
• First English Civil War#Second Newbury where a distinction is made between manoeuvre-battle and pitched-battle in text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Free Dictionary: pitched battles

-- 217.169.14.140 11:20, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Also, the page for the Battle of Sedgemoor states that it was the last pitched battle, whereas this page disagrees. duklai 20:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dissolving Parliament

Perhaps this is some British term that I am unfamiliar with, but dissolving parliament sounds rather intense.

Charles outmanoeuvred his opponents and dissolved Parliament for the final time.

The above quote, from the article, makes it sound as though Parliament was gotten rid of. However, this obviously cannot be true. Would someone please explain this? Atinoda 22:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

See dissolution of Parliament. -- ALoan (Talk) 23:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

This is a very common term used in English History, and indeed today. The Monarch in the UK has the power to dissolve Parliament. These days that means the term of the Parliament has ended and a new Election is required. Recent 'Constitutional' (The UK in fact has no Constitution, as such, but a 'statute book' of royal decrees) protocol dictates that the Prime Minister requests that the Monarch dissolve Parliament. In the days of Charles the second this was different, although his Father of course lost his head by going against Parliament. Trotboy 23:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)