For the recipient of the Victoria Cross see Thomas Pride (VC). Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (official post-nominal letters VC) is the highest award for valour that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces of any rank in any service and civilians under military command. ... Thomas Pride (29 March 1835 - 16 July 1893) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...

Thomas Pride (died October 23, 1658) was a parliamentarian general in the English Civil War, and best known as the instigator of "Pride's Purge". October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who has plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross from Sweden to Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne September... A parliamentarian is a specialist in parliamentary procedure. ... The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between (1649-1651) between supporters of Charles I and Charles II on the one hand and supporters of the English Parliament. ... Prides Purge was the occasion when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the House of Commons all those who were not supporters of Oliver Cromwell. ...

Pride is stated to have been brought up by the parish of St Bride's, London but is thought to have been born in Somerset. Subsequently he was a drayman and a brewer. At the beginning of the Civil War he served as a captain under Essex, and was gradually promoted to the rank of colonel. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Preston, and with his regiment took part in the military occupation of London in December 1648, which was the first step towards bringing King Charles I to trial. St Stevens Tower - The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ... The Brewer, designed and engraved, in the Sixteenth. ... Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, (January 11 1591 – 14 September 1646), was the son and heir of the unfortunate Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and succeeded to his fathers title in 1604, three years after the previous earl had been executed for treason. ... See Battle of Preston (1715) for the battle of the Jacobite Rising. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... // Events Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War. ... Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ...

The next step was the expulsion of the Presbyterian and Royalist elements in the House of Commons, who were thought to be prepared to reach a settlement with Charles. This, resolved by the army council and ordered by the lord general, Fairfax, was carried out by Colonel Pride's regiment. Taking his stand at the entrance of the House of Commons with a written list in his hand, he caused the arrest or exclusion of the obnoxious members, who were pointed out to him. After about a hundred members had been thus dealt with (Pride's Purge), the mutilated House of Commons, now reduced to about eighty in number, proceeded to bring the king to trial. Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ... The House of Commons is a component of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also includes the Sovereign and the House of Lords. ... Prides Purge was the occasion when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the House of Commons all those who were not supporters of Oliver Cromwell. ...

Pride was one of the judges of the king and signed his death-warrant, appending to his signature a seal showing a coat of arms. He commanded an infantry brigade under Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar (1650) and at the Battle of Worcester (1651). When the Commonwealth was established, he abandoned his involvement in politics, except in opposing the proposal to confer the kingly dignity on Cromwell. He was knighted by the Protector in 1656, and was also made a member of the new House of Lords. Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ... Battle of Dunbar (1650) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the Second English Civil War. ... Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ... The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 (the monarch Charles I being beheaded on January 30 and An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth being passed by the... The Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was the title of the head of state during part of the Commonwealth period. ... Events Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

Pride died at Nonsuch House, an estate which he had bought in Surrey. After the Restoration of 1660 his body was ordered to be dug up and suspended on the gallows at Tyburn along with those of Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, though it is said that the sentence was not carried out (probably because his corpse was too decayed). Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... Tyburn was a former village in the county of Middlesex which now forms part of Londons City of Westminster. ... Henry Ireton Henry Ireton (1611 - November 26, 1651), English was a general in the army of Parliament during the English Civil War. ... John Bradshaw (1602-October 31, 1659) was one of the judges to preside over the trial and subsequent death sentence of Charles I of England. ...

Bibliography:

• Noble, Lives of the Regicides
• Bate, Lives of the Prime Actors and Principal Contrivers of the Murder of Charles I
• Thomas Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The most familiar view of Carlyle is as the bearded sage with a penetrating gaze. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...