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The Life of Oliver Cromwell

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  1. The story of Cromwell Oliver Cromwell who rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbors; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death, and his corpse dangled from a gibbet at Tyburn. He was, and remains, one of the most contentious figures in world history. Contents: Early Years; Government by Prerogative; The Long Parliament; The Ironsides; The Association; Marston Moor; The Independents; Presbyterians and Independents; The Agitators; The Army and the King; The Second Civil War; Pride’s Purge; The King’s Death; The Rump; Ireland; Scotland; The Scotch Campaign; After Dunbar; Worcester; The Expulsion of the Long Parliament; Cromwell Protector; The First Protectoral Parliament; The Major-Generals; Foreign Policy; Second Protectorate Parliament; Kingship; The New Protectorate; The Other House; and Last Illness and Death.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
436
ISBN
9781162645582
  1. The story of Cromwell Oliver Cromwell who rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbors; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death, and his corpse dangled from a gibbet at Tyburn. He was, and remains, one of the most contentious figures in world history. Contents: Early Years; Government by Prerogative; The Long Parliament; The Ironsides; The Association; Marston Moor; The Independents; Presbyterians and Independents; The Agitators; The Army and the King; The Second Civil War; Pride’s Purge; The King’s Death; The Rump; Ireland; Scotland; The Scotch Campaign; After Dunbar; Worcester; The Expulsion of the Long Parliament; Cromwell Protector; The First Protectoral Parliament; The Major-Generals; Foreign Policy; Second Protectorate Parliament; Kingship; The New Protectorate; The Other House; and Last Illness and Death.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
436
ISBN
9781162645582

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