• the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis, Maryland, was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War, which had concluded four years earlier in England?

Facts on topics related to Battle of the Severn

Province of Maryland

• Maryland's Catholic colonial Governor William Joseph fled the colony after serving only a year in office when Protestant colonists rebelled?
• Ferdinand Poulton, a Jesuit missionary in the Province of Maryland, had his life and mysterious death fictionalized in the 1995 book Mary's Land?
• Francis Nicholson served as colonial governor or acting colonial governor of Nova Scotia, the Province of New York, the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Maryland and the Province of South Carolina at various times during his career?
• Jesse Wharton, a colonial governor of Maryland, died just over a month after taking office in 1676?
• Lionel Copley was appointed the first royal governor of the colony of Maryland after a Protestant rebellion, but died after only a year in office?
• the first Governor of colonial Maryland, Leonard Calvert, appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?

Maryland

• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
• Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
• Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine?
• Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
• Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer?
• Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
• Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
• Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
• Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?

Charles I of England

• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
• William Marshall produced an engraving (pictured) of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr for the Eikon Basilike, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
• William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
• Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?
• despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
• during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
• during the reign of the English Commonwealth, worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant?
• in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I, was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy, and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London?
• one of Sir Henry Firebrace's escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?

English Civil War

• Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
• Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?
• Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
• Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
• Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?
• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
• during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?

Leonard Calvert

• the first Governor of colonial Maryland, Leonard Calvert, appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?

Oliver Cromwell

• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin, he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell's forces as a suspected Royalist spy?
• in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
• portrait painter John Michael Wright painted both Charles II and the daughter of Oliver Cromwell?
• the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell's troops?