On 1 September, the pursuing Royalists captured Castle Dore, another ruined fortification which the Parliamentarians were using to anchor their lines.

After the forcible dissolution of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell, the Grandees of the Army Council of Officers were reluctant to authorise free elections because they were aware that the members returned by the traditional constituency would return Presbyterians and Royalists as well as their own sympathisers.

On 21 March 1646, the Royalists, commanded by Sir Jacob Astley, were defeated at the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, with hundreds of prisoners being confined for some time in St. Edwards.

The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

Both names were originally insults: a " whiggamore " was a horse drover ( See Whiggamore Raid ), and a " tory " ( Tóraidhe ) was an Irish term for an outlaw, later applied to Irish Confederates and Irish Royalists, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

The Royalists were commanded by Imam Al-Badr of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.

The Royalists were led by Prince Edward, Henry's eldest son.

The restrictions against royalist candidates and voters were widely ignored, and the elections resulted in a House of Commons which was fairly evenly divided on political grounds between Royalists and Parliamentarians and on religious grounds between Anglicans and Presbyterians.

In the English Civil War the town and the castle were held by the Royalists under Colonel Francis Wyndham, a personal acquaintance of the King.

As a result Cromwell, more than a little annoyed, made a proposal of 27 articles, two of which were utterly unacceptable to the Dutch: that all Royalists had to be expelled and that Denmark, the ally of the Republic, should be abandoned in its war against Sweden.

The Royalist army was kept well in hand, no excesses were allowed, and in a week the Royalists covered 150 miles in marked contrast to the Duke of Hamilton's ill-fated expedition of 1648.

But the Royalists were mistaken in supposing that the enemy was taken aback by their new move.

The Royalists were now only 16, 000 strong with no hope of significant reinforcements and disheartened by the apathy with which they had been received in districts formerly all their own.

Colonel Richard Deane's initial attempts to cross the Powick Bridge ( where Prince Rupert of the Rhine had won the Battle of Powick Bridge his first victory in 1642 ) failed against stubborn resistance by the Royalists ( many of whom were battle-hardened Scottish Highlanders ) commanded by Colonel Keith.

Most of the few thousands of the Royalists who escaped during the night were easily captured by Lilburne and Mercer, or by the militia which watched every road in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

The Dragoons, equipped with musket and sword, crossed St Neots ’ bridge before the Royalists were fully prepared.

The remaining Royalists were now fully prepared for combat.

Other prominent Royalists, including Buckingham's younger brother Francis Villiers, and Kenelm Digby ( son of the scientific writer of the same name ), were also killed during the battle.

By the end of 1642, Essex ’ s forces were the weaker side against the Royalists.

Although the campaign started well, Essex's army were forced to surrender in September at Lostwithiel after they were outmanoeuvred by the Royalists.

On 13 June, the Royalists, who were now making for Newark ( Nottinghamshire ) so as to receive reinforcements, were at Market Harborough ( Leicestershire ).

There had been rumours after the Broadway meeting of January 1648, that Levellers were conspiring with Royalists to overthrow the new republic.

The Royalists regained possession of their properties and positions, slaves were returned to their masters, and emancipation was forbidden.

After an hour in which the Parliamentarians initially retreated under the unexpected attack, when reinforced by Cromwell's three brigades, they in turn forced the Royalists to retreat back toward the city.

The Parliamentarian field army in south-west England was destroyed, allowing the Royalists to capture the port and major city of Bristol a few weeks later ; this period of Royalist successes was referred to as the " Royalist summer ".

Bristol was captured by the Royalists in July 1643 and a mint was established there, producing pennies with the plume reverse, but it was closed when the English Parliament recaptured the city in 1645.

Having reached Plymouth safely he became its Governor and defended the city from the besieging Royalists.

On 14 July the city and castle surrendered to the Parliamentary forces, who permitted the Royalists to march out with full honours.

In 1642, as a result of the English Civil War, Dublin Royalists were forced to flee the city.

He fought with the defeated Royalists during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland-defending the city of Waterford until hunger and disease forced him to capitulate.

* Chile campaign ( 1817 ): Installed in the city of Mendoza, San Martín reorganized the Granaderos cavalry unit along with the Army of Cuyo and crossed the Andes Mountains to attack the Royalists in Chile at the beginning of 1817 in the Battle of Chacabuco.

At the Battle of Stratton, on 16 May 1643, his troops were beaten by the Royalists ; driven into Exeter, Stamford was forced to surrender the city after a siege of three months.

The 50th were sent to take part in the Defence of Toulon which had been seized by an Allied force under Lord Hood after an invitation by French Royalists in the city.

Dublin also fell into Parliamentarian hands in 1646, when the Royalists surrendered it to an English Parliamentarian expeditionary force after the city was threatened by Confederate armies.

* 1639: Conflict between Covenanters and Royalists in Scotland, beginning with the Covenanters seizing the city of Aberdeen in February

He then joined hands with the hard-pressed Royalists at York, establishing himself between that city and Pontefract Castle.

If Essex's forces did not attack, the Royalists would take the city.

Under the direct command of the Earl of Forth, the Royalists laid siege to the city ; Rupert had suggested a direct assault, but this proposal was not adopted due to fears of high casualties.

In revenge the Royalists attacked the east of the city, but were driven off by cannon fire.

Charles's cautious failure to directly assault the town, putting a higher priority on minimising losses than on victory, had cost the Royalists dear ; while claims for their number of dead and wounded men ranged from 1, 000 to 1, 500, only around 50 people inside the city were killed.

Despite there being at least four artillery batteries at the castle, the city fell to the Royalists in 1643, then to the Parliamentarians in 1646.

The Royalists sent a messenger and drummer under a flag of truce to demand the surrender of the city.

Ramos, who besieged the city of Tepatilán, fighting fiercely for eight consecutive hours against the so called " Faithful Royalists " after which he took the Plaza de Armas, which was named de Armas ( of Arms ) after this incident

Working with other revolutionary clubs and communes in the city, he led the Jacobins to arrest a great number of Royalists during the nights of the 5th and 6th of February, 1793.

William Marshal with his main army at Northampton also made for the city, and at Lincoln a battle was fought between the Royalists headed by William Marshal and de Blondeville and the French forces and their allies.

The Royalists ' unsuccessful siege of the city was a major step on the road to full scale war which would start at in earnest with the pitched battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642.