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Pride's Purge
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Pride's Purge
Pride’s Purge
was an event that took place in December 1648, during the
Second English Civil War
, when troops of the
New Model Army
under the command of Colonel
Thomas Pride
forcibly removed from the
Long Parliament
all those who were not supporters of the
Grandee
s in the New Model Army and the Independents. It is arguably the only military
coup d'état
in
English history
.
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