The English Civil War has many causes but the personality of Charles I must be counted as one of the major reasons. Few people could have predicted that the civil war, that started in 1642, would have ended with the public execution of Charles. His most famous opponent in this war was Oliver Cromwell – one of the men who signed the death warrant of Charles.
They fought with the americans becaues the revolutionary war was to end slavery so they blacks helped them fight the war so they could be free and no longer slaves.