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The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.
On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out against Princes Rupert and Maurice with 18 troops of horses and dragoons.
* August 14 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island ( d. 1642 )
In the English Civil War the town supported the parliamentary side, although Shepton appears to have mostly escaped conflict apart from a bloodless confrontation between supporters of the King, led by Sir Ralph Hopton, and Parliament, led by Colonel William Strode, in the market place on 1 August 1642.
) ( Antwerp, 11 ( or 21 ) August 1583, – Amsterdam, 23 December 1651, ) was a Flemish / Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642.
On 22 August 1642, Charles raised his standard at Nottingham Castle.
Robert Greville was a Parliamentarian, and on 7 August 1642 a Royalist force laid siege to the castle.
The siege was lifted on 23 August 1642 when the garrison was relieved by the forces of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and the Royalists were forced to retreat to Worcester.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties ( the Eastern Association ), with Cromwell as his second in command.
On 23 August 1642, a skirmish took place outside of the town between Parliamentary forces led by Lord Brooke and Royalist forces commanded by the Earl of Northampton.
Herbert had barely gained the official position of master in 1641 when the theatres were closed at the start of the English Civil War in August 1642.
Painting by Henry Dawson ( artist ) | Henry Dawson 1847 of King Charles I raising his standard at Nottingham Castle 24 August 1642
At the start of the Civil War, in August 1642, Charles I chose Nottingham as the rallying point for his armies, but soon after he departed, the castle rock was made defensible and held by the parliamentarians.
Visscher mapped out three different routes and van Diemen decided in August 1642 to send Abel Janszoon Tasman, accompanied by Visscher, in search of the Great South Land, which Tasman would soon dub " Nieuw Holland ".
In August 1642, a consignment of arms and money, probably raised by Queen Henrietta Maria, in the Netherlands for the support of King Charles I's campaign in the Civil War, was forced into Skegness by the ships of the Parliamentarian Earl of Warwick.
He gives an account of the opening incidents of the war in letters written to friends from Chelsea in July and August 1642.
The arrival of 400 armed men from Birmingham was decisive in securing Coventry's refusal to admit Charles I in August 1642, which established Warwickshire as a Parliamentarian stronghold.
The cannon were withdrawn on 10 August 1642 and with the barricade held by as few as eight men the parliamentarian forces were able to cross the creek two days latter.
Cromwell first mustered a troop of cavalry ( then referred to as " horse ") at Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, on 29 August 1642, early in the Civil War.
Saskia van Uylenburgh ( August 2, 1612, Leeuwarden, Friesland – June 14, 1642 in Amsterdam ) was the daughter of a Frisian mayor.
The Wrottesley Baronetcy, of Wrottesley in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 30 August 1642 for Walter Wrottesley.
Guido Reni ( 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642 ) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
He received successive promotions, being promoted to commander of 12, 000 foot and 7, 000 horse on 20 March 1636 ( roughly equivalent to lieutenant general ), to 15, 000 foot and 9, 000 horse on 24 August 1637, to 10, 000 horse on 19 March 1638, to 20, 000 foot and 10, 000 horse on 24 January 1639, and to 15, 000 horse on 21 January 1642.
On 25 August 1642 he appeared at the bar of the House of Commons to deliver the king's final proposals for peace, and was afterwards present at the Battle of Edgehill, where he took part in Prince Rupert's charge and opposed the retreat of the king's forces from the battlefield.

August and Rupert
In Germany, the Electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose the unworthy Wenceslaus as German King and chose in his place Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Rhenish Count Palatine.
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* August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet ( d. 1915 )
* August 21 – Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
Rupert Chawner Brooke ( middle name sometimes given as " Chaucer ") ( 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 ) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially " The Soldier ".
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis ( 28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999 ) was an English publisher, editor and man of letters.
A series reboot called Rise of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Rupert Wyatt, was released in August 2011 to critical and commercial success.
In August Goring had been despatched by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who recognized his ability, to join Charles I in the south, and in spite of his dissolute and insubordinate character he was appointed to supersede Henry, Lord Wilmot, as lieutenant-general of the Royalist horse.
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch ( 12 August 1885 – 4 October 1952 ) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.
* Agnes ( 6 October 1289 – soon after 6 August 1296 ), twin of Wenceslaus ; married in 1296 to Rupert, eldest surviving son of German King Adolf of Nassau.
On 23 August 2006 TV 2 acquired at an auction the FM radio license relinquished by Sky Radio ( part of Rupert Murdoch's Australia-based News Corporation ) when it closed down its Danish operations in November 2005.
The last major appointments of Rupert D ' Oyly Carte's chairmanship were Wyllie Adolf Hofflin, general manager from 1941 to 1960, and August Laplanche, head chef from 1946 to 1965.
* Rupert Poiger ( b. 12 August 1858 ; d. 16 February 1935 ), retired senior teacher, conferred 1 January 1924: Poiger was made an honorary citizen on the occasion of his retirement from active scholarly duties.
Rupprecht or Rupert, Crown Prince of Bavaria () ( 18 May 1869 – 2 August 1955 ) was the last Bavarian Crown Prince.
On August 30, 2011, Rupert announced that he would consider running for Governor of Indiana.
The great thing is there's a huge thirst for knowledge and the media can fill that ," deputy chairman Rupert Heseltine, 39, told the 30 August 2007 edition of :) UK's Press Gazette media weekly.
* Prince Rupert of the Rhine 15 August 1672 – 19 November 1682
When Sturrock left the club in August 2004 only two games into the new season, chairman Rupert Lowe revealed that Wigley had been appointed full time boss of the Saints and not just caretaker.
Her eldest son Rupert, who was born on 20 August 1955, studied at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
Oxford University Press. 28 August 2007 < http :// www. oxfordreference. com / views / ENTRY. html? subview = Main & entry = t227. e47 ></ ref > Similarly, Rupert Sheldrake notes that elephant skeletons are frequently found in groups near permanent sources of water and suggests that elephants suffering from malnutrition instinctively seek out sources of water in the hopes of improving their condition.
As the former Member of Parliament Admiral Robert Blake blockaded Prince Rupert of the Rhine's fleet in Kinsale, Oliver Cromwell was able to land at Dublin on 15 August 1649 with the army to quell Royalist alliance in Ireland.
Rupert Vance " Mick " Moon VC ( 14 August 1892 – 28 February 1986 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On August 8 2012 it was made public that the American-based Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch had secured the rights to the Eredivisie for 12 years for 1-billion Euro, beginning in the 2013 / 14 season.

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