Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalist in Battle of Naseby : This Day in History
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The English Civil War is one of the darkest moments of English history. When Parliament published England's first newspaper – advertising their complaints against Charles I, the effect on men and women who had hitherto known nothing of the affairs of government was seismic. The war tore families apart, cut down a generation in its own back yard, and left relatively more people dead than World War I.