English Army

English Army
The royal arms of England
Active	1660–1707
Country	Kingdom of England
Allegiance	English monarchy
Type	Army
Engagements	Second Anglo-Dutch War Third Anglo-Dutch War Franco-Dutch War Monmouth Rebellion Williamite War in Ireland Nine Years' War King William's War Queen Anne's War War of the Spanish Succession
Commanders
Captain-General	George Monck, John Churchill
Notable commanders	Prince Rupert, James Scott, James Butler, Henri de Massue, James Stanhope

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.^[1]