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English Revolution

noun

  1. the events of 1688–89 by which James II was expelled and the sovereignty conferred on William and Mary.


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He wanted radical reforms, but would have preferred to gain them in a constitutional way, like Pym, in the English Revolution.

Thus prudently and calmly was effected our great English Revolution.

The English Revolution of the seventeenth century was reversed when it undertook to reconstruct the mores of the English people.

The men who began the English Revolution of 1688 organised the new order to which it led.

The Puritan leaders of the English Revolution were men of stern and determined energy of character.

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