Regional1639 – 1640 · 1 year

Bishops' Wars

United Kingdom

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Charles I's failed attempts to impose episcopacy on Scotland, opening the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Belligerents6

  • Scottish Covenanters
  • Scottish Royalists
  • Covenanters
  • Royalists
  • Scotland
  • England

ON THE MAPKingdom of ScotlandKingdom of England

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Three Kingdoms

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Sources

  1. Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
  2. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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56.36°N · 2.03°W · 1639 – 1640WARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / BISHOPS-WARS

Cite as: Bishops' Wars (1639 – 1640). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/bishops-wars · Sources & methodology