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 | | On November 12, 1642, royalists overwhelmed the parliamentary troops at Brentford; to parry the inescapable attack, London gathered its trained bands in a force of 24,000 at Turnham Green, to the west by Chiswick Common; Charles hesitated, retired to Reading, and missed his golden chance of seizing the mutinous capital. |
 | | London’s first railway termini, including Euston, were built in the 1830s, but it was not until the 1850s that a suburban commuter railway network began to emerge north and south of the Thames. |
 | | Post-war London enjoyed a brief Indian summer, and in the 1960s the metropolis basked in a reputation as “swinging London”, thanks to its associations with the world of pop, fashion, film, and youth culture. |
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