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 ...
Jasper Ridley suggests that Cromwell "championed the cause of the local commoners against the Mayor of Huntingdon who was threatening their privileges, and against the attempts of the Earl of Manchester to enclose the Fens." In December, 1630, he was called before the Privy Council and forced ...
Oliver Cromwell - English Civil War, Protectorate, Lord Protector: During 1643 Cromwell acquired a reputation both as a military organizer and a fighting man. From the very beginning he had insisted that the men who served on the parliamentarian side sho
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