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Engagement| Treaty between Charles I and an alliance of Scottish royalists and moderate Presbyterians 26 December 1647 by which he agreed to abolish Episcopacy and restore Presbyterianism in return for their support against the parliamentarians who had overthrown him. The Scots agreed to control the militia, abolish the army, call a new Parliament, and restore the King by force if necessary. Oliver Cromwell's parliamentarian army smashed the Scottish army at Preston August 1648, and the more radical Kirk party gained the ascendancy in Scotland. See also Heads of Proposals. |
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Actium, Battle ofAjmone-Marsan, GuidoAlfonso IIAnglo–Dutch Wars (1652–74)Antietam, Battle ofAshbourneAyscue, GeorgeBainbridge, WilliamBakels, KeesBarikotbarrage balloonBaudo, SergeBecht, HermannBlake, RobertBlane, GilbertBoettcher, WilfriedBolimov, Battle ofBottesini, GiovanniBrookner, Anita | Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of A long engagement if you like, but inquiries, questions, plans, lines of action--no, Aunt Juley, no. Miss Pink wrote word of the engagement to Moody first; reserving to a later day the superior pleasure of informing Lady Lydiard of the very event which that audacious woman had declared to be impossible. |
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