Travel: The Anti-Hero of Huntingdon Four Hundred Years after the Birth of Oliver Cromwell, Donald Hiscock E Xplores His Old Cambridgeshire Stomping GroundsThough he is captured in a million holiday snaps every year for no reason beyond the fact that his statue stands outside the Houses of ...
Although not a direct descendent ofHenry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell (who was famously promoted to the earldom of Essex but later executed in 1540 when he fell from the King’s favour), Oliver Cromwell’s great-great-grandfather, Morgan Williams, married Thomas’ sister Katherine in...
Where is Oliver Cromwell buried?Oliver Cromwell:Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25, 1599 in Huntingdon, England. He was influential in English history for his part in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Commonwealth of England....
Oliver Cromwell, English soldier and statesman, who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars and was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1653–58) during the republican Commonwealth. Learn more about the life and accomplishments o
Toward the end of 1644 a dispute about the conduct of the war developed between Henry Montagu, earl of Manchester, one of the main parliamentary generals, and his lieutenant general, Oliver Cromwell. In December Cromwell argued in a major speech that the war would never be brought to a ...
Cromwellian army, or until March 1660, when its members, finally restored, passed an act for its dissolution. Legally the act of 1660 was as invalid as the ejection of 1653, because it lacked royal assent. An act of the Convention Parliament of April–December 1660 can be said to have ...