15. The English Civil War Was Also Fought in America
American originals such as Colonel Thomas Rainsborough and his Puritan followers sailed across the Atlantic to fight in the English Civil War in England. That war also traveled in the opposite direction, crossing the Atlantic to be fought on American soil. By the 1650s, the English Civil War was all over, and Parliament had decisively defeated the royalists. King Charles I had been captured, tried, convicted, and beheaded, his heir had fled to the continent, and England was ruled by a Lord Protector, the Puritan Oliver Cromwell.
However, small-scale fighting still flared up every now and then between Royalists and Parliamentarians. One such flare-up, which came to be known as the Battle of the Severn, took place on American soil near Annapolis, Maryland, on March 25th, 1655.