English military and political leader (1599–1658)
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He signed a king's death warrant, ruled England without a crown, then was dug up and hanged two years after his own death. Cromwell's name still divides: military dictator or defender of Parliament, depending who's telling it.
Oliver Cromwell was an English farmer and MP whose life before 1640 was marked by failure — he nearly emigrated to New England. When civil war broke out in 1642, he discovered a talent for command. By 1645 he led the cavalry that broke the Royalists, and in January 1649 he was among those who sent Charles I to the scaffold. Military victories in Ireland and Scotland secured the Commonwealth, and in December 1653 Cromwell became Lord Protector, a role he held until his death in 1658. His son Richard couldn't hold the regime together. Two years later the monarchy returned, and Cromwell's corpse…
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We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration.
This is our comfort, God is in heaven, and He doth what pleaseth Him; His, and only His counsel shall stand, whatsoever the designs of men, and the fury of the people be.
It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity.
I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests...
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