Killer Lettuceš¹ started this discussion 3 years ago#103,264
We formed a Cornish Army (and yes, it was actually called that), took control of Cornwall, invaded England, besieged Plymouth for several years, stormed the walls of Bristol, fighting and winning many battles along the way and returned to Cornwall, where we formed a new professional army (the first professional army in Britain, this idea was copied later that year by the English New Model Army), declared independence and fortified the Tamar, troops stationed there were ordered to close off the border and stop any foreign soldiers from entering Cornwall, parliamentarian or royalist. It didn't last, the English marched into Cornwall with their New Model Army, far larger than the 6000 strong New Cornish Tertia and we signed a peace treaty with parliamentarian general Fairfax at Tresillian Bridge in 1646.
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One of the largest confrontations of that war was the Battle of Lostwithiel. A large English army marched into Cornwall as far as Lostwithiel where they burned down the Cornish parliament buildings. Unfortunately for them the Cornish populace hid all the food and they quickly became surrounded. Their general, the Earl of Essex, jumped on a boat at Fowey and sailed away leaving 10,000 soldiers behind to surrender.
There's a lot going on in Cornish history that we're not taught, it just doesn't fit in with the English narrative.
Usually people call it the English Civil War, in academia it's often referred to as the War of the Three Kingdoms (because it was a series of wars that covered not just England, but Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall as well).
The best reading material is probably a book calledĀ West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British StateĀ by Prof Mark Stoyle (from Devon I believe) and another by him calledĀ Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War