EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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Jailed
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Exiled
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Punched in the face repeatedly by Parliament
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Executed
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles laid his neck out on the block and asked the executioner to wait for his signal to behead him. A moment passed and Charles gave the signal; the executioner beheaded him in one clean blow. The executioner silently held up Charles’ head to the spectators.
Detailed explanation-2: -Seven years of fighting between Charles’ supporters and Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians claimed the lives of thousands, and ultimately, of the King himself. Charles was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles I succeeded his father James I in 1625 as King of England and Scotland. During Charles’ reign, his actions frustrated his Parliament and resulted in the wars of the English Civil War, eventually leading to his execution in 1649.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the end of the trial the 59 Commissioners (judges) found Charles I guilty of high treason, as a “tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy". He was beheaded on a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall on 30 January 1649.
Detailed explanation-5: -In London, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649. Charles ascended to the English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I.