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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 British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a politician.
The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, initially led by Oliver Cromwell.It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, and wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
A drawing of Oliver Cromwell's head on a spike from the late 18th century. Oliver Cromwell, born on 25 April 1599, led the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War.Upon his army's victory, he oversaw the conversion of England into a republic, abolishing the monarchy and the House of Lords after the execution of King Charles I in January 1649.
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. It "remains one of the most important works of British history published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Sir Oliver Cromwell (c. 1562 – 28 August 1655) was an English landowner, lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1625. He was the uncle of Oliver Cromwell , the Member of Parliament, general, and Lord Protector of England.
A rare letter written by Oliver Cromwell in 1648 will be sold at an online auction in Edinburgh. In the letter, Cromwell discusses intimate family affairs such as his son’s marriage and the fate ...
The posthumous execution of Cromwell, on the anniversary of the regicide in 1661, struck the imagination of the Italian writer, and State Secretary of Este court in Modena, Girolamo Graziani who involved himself since then in his Il Cromuele (1671), a tragedy that deals with the theme of the dark cruel tyrant, (Oliver Cromwell) and the violated regality (Charles I of England's martyrdom).
The Rule of the Major-Generals, was a period of direct military government from August 1655 to January 1657, [1] during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate. [2] England and Wales were divided into ten regions, [3] each governed by a major-general who answered to the Lord Protector.