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Roundheads, derisive name for the supporters of Parliament during the English civil war English civil war, 1642–48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the "parliamentarians," that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth.
..... Click the link for more information. . The name, which originated c.1641, referred to the short haircuts worn by some of the Puritans in contrast to the fashionable long-haired wigs worn by many of the supporters of King Charles I, who were called Cavaliers.

Roundheads

the derisive term used by the supporters of the king for the adherents of Parliament during the English Bourgeois Revolution of the 17th century. It referred to the characteristic haircut (closely cropped) prevalent among the bourgeoisie.

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No references found			The author shows how gunpowder and gun technology in the 17th century affected the military logistics of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and uses examples from battles at Basing, Pontefract Castle, Gloucester and Lathom to reinforce his points. 'The furie of the ordnance'; artillery in the English civil wars by Reference & Research Book News Cavaliers and Roundheads put their differences to one side to celebrate this wedding with a difference at Heaton, in Newcastle, in July 1979. Ceasefire agreed for wedding; REMEMBER WHEN by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) At seven o'clock on the morning of May 8, his 3,000 battle-hardened Roundheads faced 8,000 ragtag Royalists armed only with billhooks and scythes, useless against the muskets and terrible 18-foot pikes of the Roundheads, who attacked with dragoons and armoured cavalry on the flanks - the famous "Ironsides. Shots and scythes on Wales' bloodiest battlefield; Time traveller ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)			round window round-end step round-face bit round-head bolt round-head buttress dam round-headed round-off error round-robin round-robin scheduling round-shouldered round-the-world echo round-topped round-topped roll round-trip echoes round-trip time roundabout rounded forend rounded front rounded step rounded tile Rounded Vowels roundel roundelay rounders Roundhead Roundheads roundhouse Rounding Rounding Error roundness roundnose chisel roundnose tool rounds complete roundstone roundworm Rourke, Constance Rourkela Rous sarcoma Rous, Francis Peyton Rous, Peyton Rousalii Rouse, Irving Rouse, James W. Rousseau Rousseau diagram Rousseau, Henri Rousseau, Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Etienne Theodore			roundel roundel roundelay roundelay roundelays roundelays Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundels Roundels rounder rounder rounder rounder rounder rounders rounders roundest roundest roundest roundest roundest Roundeval Roundfish Roundhead Roundhead Roundhead Roundhead Association Roundhead vs Goose 8 Ball Classic roundheaded roundheaded Roundheads roundhouse roundhouse Roundhouses Roundhouses rounding rounding rounding rounding rounding rounding error rounding error rounding error Rounding function Rounding function Rounding functions Rounding functions Rounding Linear Programming Relaxation Rounding numbers Rounding numbers rounding off rounding off rounding off rounding off rounding on rounding on rounding on rounding on rounding out rounding out rounding out

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