Royalists

Examples of Royalists in the following topics:

• Restoration of the Stuarts

  • Over a decade after Charles I's 1649 execution and Charles II's 1651 escape to mainland Europe, the Stuarts were restored to the English throne by Royalists in the aftermath of the slow fall of the Protectorate.  
  • He attempted to mediate between the army and civil society and allowed a Parliament, which contained a large number of disaffected Presbyterians and Royalists.
  • A royalist uprising was planned for August 1, 1659 and although it never happened, Sir George Booth gained control of Cheshire. 
  • Like its predecessor, it was overwhelmingly Royalist.
  • Many Royalist exiles returned and were rewarded.

• Structure of the Directory

  • The Directory defeated a resurgence of the War in the Vendée, the royalist-led civil war in the Vendée region, but failed in its venture to support the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and create an Irish Republic.
  • The new régime met opposition from Jacobins on the left and Royalists on the right (the latter were secretly subsidized by the British government).
  • In the elections of 1797 for one-third of the seats, the Royalists won the great majority of seats and were poised to take control of the Directory in the next election.
  • General Augereau's soldiers arrested Pichegru, Barthélemy, and the leading royalist deputies of the Councils.
  • The next day, the Directory annulled the elections of about two hundred deputies in 53 departments. 65 deputies were deported to Guiana, 42 royalist newspapers were closed, and 65 journalists and editors were deported.

• Cromwell and the Roundheads

  • What followed, is know as the English Civil War (1642–1651), which developed into a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers").
  • Nicknamed "Old Ironsides," he was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to being one of the principal commanders of the New Model Army, playing an important role in the defeat of the royalist forces.
  • His forces defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country, bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • He died from natural causes in 1658 and the Royalists returned to power in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.
  • The victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army over the Royalist Army at the Battle of Naseby on June 14, 1645 marked the decisive turning point in the English Civil War.

• Napoleon's Rise to Power

  • He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists.
  • In October 1795, royalists in Paris declared a rebellion against the National Convention.
  • The defeat of the royalist insurrection extinguished the threat to the Convention and earned Bonaparte sudden fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new government, the Directory.
  • The royalists attacked Bonaparte for looting Italy and warned that he might become a dictator.
  • Bonaparte also sent General Pierre Augereau to Paris to lead a coup d'état and purge the royalists on September  4 (Coup of 18 Fructidor).

• The English Protectorate

  • After a royalist uprising led by Sir John Penruddock, Cromwell divided England into military districts ruled by Army Major-Generals who answered only to him.
  • In early 1649, the Confederates allied with the English Royalists, who had been defeated by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.
  • By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country—bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War).

• The First Consul

  • As France's military situation improved, the Jacobins feared a revival of the pro-peace Royalist faction.
  • Military victories in the ongoing war increased his popularity and royalist plots served as an excuse to eliminate political opponents, usually by deportation, even if they were innocent.
  • The Concordat of 1801, drawn up not in the Church's interest but in that of Napoleon's own policy, allowed him to put down the constitutional democratic Church, rally round him the consciences of the peasants, and, above all, deprive the royalists of their best weapon.

• The French Wars of Religion

  • King Henry III of France, supported by the royalists and the politiques;
  • For the first part of the war, the royalists and the Catholic League were uneasy allies against their common enemy, the Huguenots.
  • Open war erupted between the royalists and the Catholic League.
  • As on the other side ultra-Catholic and anti-royalist doctrines were closely associated, so on the side of the two kings the principles of tolerance and royalism were united.

• The National Convention

  • Girondins were convinced that their opponents aspired to a bloody dictatorship, while the Montagnards believed that Girondins were ready for any compromise with conservatives, and even royalists, that would guarantee their remaining at power.
  • The political deadlock, which had repercussions all over France, eventually drove both major factions to accept dangerous allies, royalists in the case of Girondins and the sans-culottes in that of the Montagnards.

• Napoleon's Military Record

  • He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists.
  • His firm beliefs would lead him to fight his own people, initially at the Siege of Toulon, where he would play a major role in crushing the royalist rebellion by expelling an English fleet and securing the valuable French harbor.

• Politics within the Revolutionaries

  • Labelled by their opponents as royalists, they were targeted after the fall of the monarchy.
  • The name survived for a few months as an insulting label for moderates, royalists, and aristocrats.