The Glorious Revolution

If you ask me The Glorious Revolution was nothing more than a whole bunch of drama. King James, a catholic, wanted to keep catholic control in England and didn't want the protestants in power. William his some in law, a big supporter of the protestants didn't like what James was doing and decided to take him out, but without too much force. First William got a bunch of support from many people ranging from many different places in Europe. Then he got the OK from the Dutch ( he had to get the OK from them because he was a Dutch Stadholder). The great thing about all this is William did it all super secretively. King James fears it but wasn't completely sure he was about to get invaded. So with OK from the Dutch William invades England with a fleet of ships twice the size of the spanish armada. The ships come in without any bloodshed. Just like William predicted there wan't much fighting because the king knew that his army was smaller and didn't have a lot of support for him. So William makes it to London and tries to start taking the throne but can't immediately because of politics, but gets it a few months later. Once he gets the throne there are a bunch of uprisings in Ireland and Scotland. King James even returns to Ireland with 6,000 French troops at one point coming to help out, but leaves once his army gets humiliated. Oh yeah, during all this the French declares war on the Dutch because of its invasion on Britian and they have an alliance with Britian. So William goes and battles there, but ends up just loosing a lot of money and putting the Dutch in a lot of debt forcing the Dutch to leave global politics and leaving Britain as the powerhouse in Europe.

So what good did all this drama do, because it was a whole bunch of drama. Well, because of the Glorious Revolution the Bill of Rights were made, Absoloute Monarchy ended leaving more power to the parliament, and catholic influences in english politics ended. All this I believe helped the people of Britain get away from the absoloute monarchies that they were used to, and help the everyday people start to think for themselves rather than what the king says they should think.