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 Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oliver was born in Huntingdon, in the county of Huntingdonshire in East Anglia.
Oliver Cromwell descended from Catherine Cromwell (born circa 1483), an older sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell.
Although he was later involved in the King's overthrow and execution, Cromwell did not start the civil war as a radical republican, but with the intention of forcing Charles to reign with the consent of Parliament and with a more consensual, Protestant, religious policy.
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 Cromwell, Oliver - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cromwell, Oliver
This was the year in which King Charles I was beheaded, and when Cromwell declared Britain a republic – the Commonwealth.
A silver crown of 1658, depicting English statesman and general Oliver Cromwell in Roman style, wearing a laurel wreath.
He declared Britain a republic (the Commonwealth) in 1649, following the execution of Charles I. As Lord Protector (ruler) from 1653, Cromwell established religious toleration and raised Britain's prestige in Europe on the basis of an alliance with France against Spain.
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 Cromwell, Oliver on Encyclopedia.com
Travel: At home with Oliver Cromwell The Roundhead leader was born 400 years ago today.
CROMWELL, OLIVER [Cromwell, Oliver], 1599-1658, lord protector of England.
He approved the Navigation Act of 1651, which led to the first (1652-54) of the Dutch Wars, and he pressed the war against Spain (1655-58) as a means of encroaching on Spanish rights of colonization in America.
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 CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599... - Online Information article about CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599...
arrest Cromwell was instrumental in effecting, obliged him to retire again to the association, leaving the Fairfaxes to be defeated at Adwalton Moor.
Cromwell was perhaps arrested in his prcject by his See also:
Cromwell used his influence in restraining the more eager who wished to march on London immediately, and in avoiding the use of force by which nothing permanent could be effected, urging that " whatsoever we get by treaty will be See also:
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