Tonnage and poundage, 29;
declaration against its pay without Parliamentary consent, 31;
declared illegal by Long Parliament, 54
Tories, in America, 217
Tower of London, the, Eliot’s imprisonment there, 32;
Laud’s, 52
Trade, in Europe, in the seventeenth century, 182
Trim (Ireland), captured by Parliamentarians, 157
Tromp, the elder, in the Spanish wars, 18, 182
Tudors, English sovereigns, unarmed despots, 10, 11;
their relations with English commercial classes, 10;
with middle class, 10
Tunis, Blake at, 228
Turenne, regular soldiers under, 145;
service of British troops under, 229
Turks, cruelty of, 218, 228
Tyranny, English intolerance of, 11;
Cromwell’s tyranny defined, 210 _et seq._, 216;
Charles I.’s, 234
Ulster, Scotch Presbyterians at, 122;
Irish rising there, 146;
captured by Parliamentarians, 150;
massacres by Cromwellians there, 151, 157;
under the Protectorate, 223
Ultramontanes, the, 148, 150
Uniforms, variety of, in Parliamentary army, 64;
origin of present English, 229
Union, War of the, in the United States, 193;
its salutary effects, 208.
_See also American Civil War_
Unitarians, 78
United States, the, religious tolerance of, compared with Cromwell’s
England’s, 49;
political theorists, 113;
Abolitionists, 192;
Constitution of, 196;
government of, 198;
practical good sense of, 219
Valley Campaigns, Stonewall Jackson’s, 171
Vane, Sir Harry, 185, 187
Van Heemskirk, his prowess against Spain, 18
Vaudois, the, persecutions of, 220, 227
Venables, at San Domingo, 229
Venetian government, Puritans’ prisoners sold to, 129
Verdelin, Regiment of, 225
Verney, 154
Veto, the Protector’s, 197
Victoria, Queen, 135
Virginia, Puritans’ prisoners there, 129
Volunteers (soldiery), in American Civil War, 65;
compared with regulars, 66–69;
Ironsides as, 144;
rawness of, 167
Wales, Royalist rising there in Second Civil War, 121;
Cromwell’s administration there, 216
Wallenstein, 129, 156
Waller, Parliamentary general, at Copredy Bridge, 91
War-ships, Dutch, 182
Washington, compared with Pym and Hampden, 5, 36;
his superiority over Cromwell, 53;
his regular soldiery, 91;
character of, 101;
disinclination to dictatorship, 102;
his lofty plane, 103;
his judicious government, 110;
his statesmanship, 188, 190;
his influence on the United States Constitution, 196;
his forbearance, 207
Waterloo, Battle of, compared with Marston Moor, 90
Wayne, American Revolutionary general, 91
Wellington, 145
Welsh War, 121, 122
Wentworth, Sir Thomas, 27;
character of, 33.
_See also Strafford_
West Indies, English rule in, 229
Westminster, Long Parliament meets there, 41;
Cromwell installed there, 199
Westminster Hall, Cromwell’s head exposed there by Restorationists, 233
West Point, advantages of its training, 67
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