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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
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Cromwell started off as a gentleman from Huntingdon. He first studied at Huntingdon Grammar School. He had a bad relationship with his father. He went on to Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge. This was a new, small college where he had the chance to talk about his new Puritan ideas. However, he never took a degreebecause his fathe...
In 1628, Cromwell became an MP and a Puritanand supported Parliament in its quarrel with the King. When war broke out, the King's army was stronger and better-prepared than the army of Parliament. Cromwell saw this, and he decided to train men to fight better. Soon the "New Model Army" he had trained began to win battles. As a result, Parliament wo...
During the following years, Oliver Cromwell conducted two campaigns to subdue the Irish Catholics (1649-1650), and in the battles of Dunbar and Worcester (1650-1651) crushed the Scottish royalists, who had proclaimed King Charles II. , first-born of the executed sovereign.
The House of Commons tried hard to control the army, but could not: in 1653, Cromwell dissolved the House of Commons, yielded legislative power to 139 people of his confidence and took the title of Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, with powers wider than those enjoyed by the monarch. During his tenure he reorganized public finances, ...
At his death (3 September 1658), however, the Republic was immersed in a period of chaos, which ended with the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Charles II of England by the Parliament (1660). Despite his prudence, the new monarch did not hesitate to order the exhumation of the corpse of the man who had signed the death sentence of his f...
Morrill, John Stephen; Adamson, J.S.A. (1990). Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Longman Publishing Group.Adamson, John (1987). "The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647", in Historical Journal, 30, 3.Carlyle, Thomas (ed.) (1904 edition). Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches, with elucidations Archived 2006-11-02 at the Wayback Machine; Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback MachineCoward, Barry (2003). The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-77251-9.Biographies
1. Morrill, John Stephen; Adamson, J.S.A. (1990). Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Longman Publishing Group. 2. Ashley, Maurice (1958). The Greatness of Oliver Cromwell (Macmillan). Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine 3. Bennett, Martyn (2006). Oliver Cromwell. Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 978-0-415-31922-5. 4. Clifford, Alan C. (1999). Oliver Cromwell: The Lessons and Legacy of the Protectorate. ISBN 978-0-9526716-2-6. 5. Davis, J.C. (2001). Oliver Cromwell. Bloomsbury Academi...
Military studies
1. Durston, Christopher (2000). "'Settling the Hearts and Quieting the Minds of All Good People': the Major-generals and the Puritan Minorities of Interregnum England", in History2000 85(278): pp. 247–267, ISSN 0018-2648 . Full text online at Ebsco. 2. Durston, Christopher (1998). "The Fall of Cromwell's Major-Generals", in English Historical Review1998 113(450): pp. 18–37, ISSN 0013-8266 3. Firth, Charles Harding (1992). Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier During the Civil Wars...
Surveys of era
1. Coward, Barry (2002). The Cromwellian Protectorate. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-4317-8. 2. Coward, Barry (2003). The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-77251-9. 3. Davies, Godfrey (1959). The Early Stuarts, 1603-1660. Oxford : Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821704-6. 4. Korr, Charles P. (1975). Cromwell and the New Model Foreign Policy: England's Policy Toward France, 1649-1658. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-02281-...
The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon Archived 2006-10-05 at the Wayback MachineChronology of Oliver Cromwell World History Database Archived 2018-10-15 at the Wayback MachineBiography at the British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine- Council of State
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Oliver Cromwell, (born April 25, 1599, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Eng.—died Sept. 3, 1658, London), English soldier and statesman, lord protector of the republican Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1653–58).
Nov 16, 2023 · After serving on the parliamentarian side in the English Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell was the lord protector of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland during the republican Commonwealth.
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Feb 23, 2023 · Oliver Cromwell has divided opinion for over three and a half centuries. To some, he is a hero who stood up for democracy, while others regard him as a ruthless dictator. Did he liberate the people, or brutally oppress them?
