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/ˈɪŋglɪʃ rˌɛvəlˈuʃən/ Listen

English Revolution

noun

The revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689). Synonyms: Bloodless Revolution, Glorious Revolution.

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... boisterous politicians. Though profoundly attached to the Throne and to the Hanoverian succession, he was no courtier. The year 1688 was his sacred date, and he had a habit of applying the principles of our English Revolution to the issues of ...

— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell

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... the Acadians to remove to Isle Royale. Some of the English officials had once been of opinion that this French Catholic population should be transported to Martinique or some other distant French colony, and its place supplied by Protestant families sent from England or Ireland.[197] Since the English Revolution, Protestantism was bound up with the new political order, and Catholicism with the old. No Catholic could favor the Protestant succession, and hence politics were inseparable from creed. Vetch, who came of a race of hot and stubborn Covenanters, ...

— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman

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Words linked to "English Revolution" : revolution, Glorious Revolution