English Army

The English Army existed while England was an independent state and was at war with other states, but it was not until the Interregnum and the New Model Army (raised by Parliament to defeat the Royalists in the English Civil War) that England acquired a peacetime professional standing army. At the Restoration of the monarchy, Charles II kept a small standing army, formed from elements of the Royalist army in exile and elements of the New Model Army, from which the most senior regular regiments of today's British Army can trace their antecedence. Likewise, Royal Marines can trace their origins back to the formation of the English Army's "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot" at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company on 28 October 1664.
==See also==
*Battle of Ethandun
*Wars of Scottish Independence
*Hundred Years' War
*Anglo-Scottish Wars
*Military of England
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Category:Kingdom of England
Category:Military history of England
Category:Military history of Great Britain
Category:Military units and formations established in 1660
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1707
Category:Government agencies established in 1660
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Category:1707 disestablishments in England