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The Blew Regiment
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The Blew Regiment and the Civil War
he Blew Regiment of the Cittie of London Trayned Bandes was a militia regiment formed in the Seventeenth Century, comprising of approximately 1200 musketeers and 800 pikemen drawn from the middle class citizens of London, generally members of the various business guilds. At that time England had no standing army, so local trained bands were the only permanent forces that could be called upon in times of strife.
Upon the outbreak of the First English Civil War in 1642 London declared for the Parliamentarian cause, as did its trained bands. The Blew Regiment was involved in most of the the significant battles of the First War, which culminated in the Battle of Naseby in 1645 where the armies of Charles I were finally defeated.
The Parliamentarian victory in the First War brought to an end the hitherto widely accepted belief that English monarchs ruled by Divine Right, and gave birth to the Parliamentary system we have today. The trained bands became part of the New Model Army, formed in 1645, which was England's first standing army.
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