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- Prince Rupert (also called Rupert of the Rhine) was the most well known commander in the English Civil War. Rupert’s military ability as a cavalry soldier was of great benefit to the Royalist army.
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 [27 December 1619 (N.S.)] – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) [9 December 1682 (N.S)]) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor.
Prince Rupert Rupert’s military ability as a cavalry soldier was of great benefit to the Royalist army. Born at Prague in Bohemia on 17 December 1619, Prince Rupert was the third son of Charles I 's sister Elizabeth (the "Winter Queen") by her marriage to Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate.
Dec 17, 2013 · The year 1644 was the turning-point of the war….Rupert was sent from Oxford to retrieve the situation, and in particular to raise the siege of York. At first he was singularly successful, for he compelled the Parliamentary forces before Newark to capitulate, and then captured Stockport, Bolton, and Liverpool.
At the sieges of Louvain (1635) and Bfeda (1637) Rupert distinguished himself in open combat and learned the many fine points of siege warfare. In 1638 the young royal assumed his first command as colonel of cavalry in his brother’s ill-fated expedition to retake the Palatinate from the Hapsburgs.
Despite his youth (only 23 at the outbreak of war), Rupert was already an experienced soldier, having served under the prince of Orange in 1635, and been present at the siege of Breda in 1637. The following year he was captured during an invasion of Westphalia, and was only released in 1641.
From this point until the close of the first Civil War in 1646 Prince Rupert is the dominant figure of the war. His battles and campaigns are described in the article Great Rebellion. He was distinctively a cavalry leader, and it was not until the battle of Marston Moor in 1644 that the Royalist cavalry was beaten.
Jan 15, 2022 · A nephew of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, Rupert was a cavalry general and privateer during the English Civil Wars (1642–51). He was the first close relative of an English monarch to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
