Consequently when he asked the Barons to provide an army to win back his land in France they refused. The evidence suggests that John did not always listen to his Barons and his Barons did not always listen to him and it was known as a long term cause of the rebellion. In addition to this was when John raised the taxes. John increased taxes heavily to pay for an army to gain his land in France; again he didn’t consult the Barons before this change. In 1213 he collected so much money from taxes that half of all the coins in England were his to spend.
This is referring to Henry’s absence from England due to him going into battle with France. They wanted to make sure any problems were sorted out to prevent going to battle in the king’s absence. Most of the nobles and the best of the army would be at the battle in France with Henry, and England’s leadership wouldn’t be as strong due to regents taking the place of Henry whilst he was away, so England may not have been able to handle a battle in these circumstances, which would have in turn threatened Henry’s ambitions in France as sorting out England would be more important than going to battle with France. The counties that had refused to pay the tax were near the border with Scotland. This meant that if there was ever an uprising against the King there, Scotland could take the opportunity to get her foot in the door and attempt to seize land.
Therefore the source suggests that Henry’s inability to enforce the ‘newly-imposed head tax’ contributed not only to a lack of funds for wars with France, but also his failure to combat the tax boycott ‘gave [James IV] hope of undertaking something’. Source 2 confirms what is being said in source 1 as it demonstrates that the threat was real, accounting how James did actually invade, taking advantage of Henry's absence, which confirms the suspicions of the Privy Council in source 1. Source 1 also implies that Henry may have had to abandon any plans made to invade France due to the possible Scottish invasion, 'against King Henry in his absence'. Yet the situation was double edged sword; if Henry chose to ignore the potential threat of a Scottish invasion and stayed to campaign in France, he risked the former actually coming true. If however, he decided to return to England in order to discourage James IV from attacking, he would lose progress in France.
To some extent, I agree with this statement as John had many faults such as, he was a bad fighter and the people of medieval England liked their kings to be great warriors. He lost all of the land in France and some sources written by barons say that it was because he was idle and was not bothering to fight. He was also over taxing the barons which obviously was not sensible as the barons in medieval times had a lot of power. If they inherited land, king John would get a large share of it, or if they didn’t want to fight in a battle, they would have to pay a large amount of money to the king. However I also disagree with this statement for as many reasons as I agree with it, one being that Johns brother was Richard the Lion Heart.
Introduction/Thesis Paragraph When the British landed and took New York, they could not have fulfilled General William Howe’s political objective of ending the rebellion in 1776. The primary reasons behind him being unable to bring this objective to fruition are because 1) he became reluctant to attack fortified enemy positions and 2) his belief that a decisive action would crush the will of the people was overblown. Reluctance of Attack At the conclusion of the Battle of Bunker Hill, although it was a victory for the British, General Howe sustained heavy casualties. These losses weighed heavily on General Howe and made his decision making much more conservative. For the rest of the war, Howe avoided a direct frontal attack on any American position, preferring to use flanking maneuvers instead.
This made a bid difference in England. King Henry did not over sudden change his mined with the Catholic Church; there was different reason for him to change the religion. One of the reasons was that the Pope would not grant him a divorce with Katharine Of Aragon, second reason was that he ran out of money and all the people how had money needed to give 10% to the Church. But also a man called Martin Luther convents him, by “saying people are doing bad things and then they go and buy a paper that says you are forgiven”. But this does not do anything with religion.
source 2 is different to sources 1 and 3 as it backs up the idea that Scotland was a threat to henry’s ambitions. it shows that England was able to deal with this threat effectively in source 1 we learn that henry was unable to raise a head tax in the northern counties in 1513, and that he did not deal with the counties to pay as of fear of rebellion. not only would the failure to raise money jeopardise henry’s aims and ambitions in France, his ability to wage war in France was also threatened by the prospect that James VI might take advantage of the rebellion in the north to invade, therefore henry had to “strive” to keep his subjects loyal, “supisious” says Vergil of James’s intentions. Vergil writes about the instability of henry’s rule in the north and the strength of the Scottish
The mistake that Madison made was going to war with Great Britain. They were worried because they believed that Americas “peace, prosperity and happiness… are in Great jeopardy… the general government have determined to make war on Great Britain” (I). There are many reasons that he should have not gone to war with Britain such as there is not enough troops to fight a good battle, this will only hurt our economy and bring us more into debt, and since we are always fighting Britain about something was this a real reason for a war? The first reason Madison should not have gone to war with Great Britain is this. There are not enough troops in America to successfully produce a war.
Parliament didn't like Charles main advisor Buckingham and they tried to punish him but failed so Charles got angry and sent 2 MPs to prison. In 1629 Charles closed down parliament and decided to reign without them this meant even more problems were coming his way. Parliament had only given Charles custom duties for one year and he needed more money after that year so he decided to collect a tax called ship money . Ship money was only to be collected in the time of war and by the coast of the country but there was no war going on and the navy didn't need to be changed but still he collected the ship money for no reason and also started collecting ship money from the land that wasn't in the cost. Because he did this without parliaments approval parliament got angry.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence about many things that the king of England was doing to persecute the colonists. Here are some of the things he listed: “He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspend in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them.” Which basically meant the King wouldn’t let them pass important laws they needed and the king wouldn't sign off on the laws, so when he wouldn't the colonists would suffer. Jefferson also wrote that, “For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” Which means that the government was making people house troops when they did not want to. Another one Jefferson wrote was, “For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by