English Civil War
- William Hiseland (1620–1732) — Wiltshire native who fought for the royalists in the English Civil War, Williamite War in Ireland and War of the Spanish Succession. He was the last survivor of the Battle of Edgehill and retired with the rank of sergeant. For his 80-year service to the king he was one of the first to be admitted to the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
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Famous quotes containing the words civil war, english, civil and/or war:
“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
“In an English dinner-party ... I have never known small-talk run short!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)