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    Oliver Cromwell

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    Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell was born on the 25th of April 1599 to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward‚ a family of minor gentry. He had been educated at Huntingdon Grammar School and Sydney Sussex College‚ Cambridge. Cromwell was famous for being both skilled militarily‚ creating the famed Ironsides cavalry platoon‚ and politically‚ becoming the First Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England‚ Scotland and Ireland. He held extremely strict Puritan religious beliefs. Oliver Cromwell was born

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    Oliver Cromwell-Hero or Villain Oliver Cromwell was born on 25th April 1599 in Huntingdon‚ Huntingdonshire. Many historians are still battling for the fact that Cromwell is a hero but some are fighting that he is a villain. Cromwell himself said‚ “Without me England would have drowned in blood” We don’t know yet. But there are a lot of facts that Cromwell is a hero and villain. In my humble opinion I think that Oliver Cromwell is a hero because he created a new model army and defeated King Charles

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    Oliver Cromwell: A Visionary Among Parliamentarians Due: January 11‚ 2013 6 Oliver Cromwell rose from his humble heritage in English society to become the Lord Protector of England‚ Scotland‚ and Ireland‚ the first and only man without royal blood to do so. His played a prominent role in bringing about the trial and beheading of King Charles I; he took control of the Parliament ’s professional Army and went forth on the most cruel military action England had ever undertaken against the neighbouring

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    the rule of Oliver Cromwell been interpreted differently? There are lots of opinions about Cromwell and they have differed a lot. Historians still disagree about him even today! ‘His cruelty and ruthlessness have left a mark and a memory that the last 300 years have not been able to wipe.’ C V Wedgwood mentioned in the 1950’s-60. He wrote many books about the life of Charles I and this shows that his opinion of Cromwell wasn’t a very nice one. He has stated that Oliver Cromwell has scarred life

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    Historians regard Thomas Cromwell as one of the most significant figures in the english history. It is said that he ‚achieved a „revolution in the government“ in the 1530s‘. His most prominent work was the Act in Restraint of Appeals‚ which announced England an empire ruled by a king who has spiritual and temporal power. G.R. Elton said ‘wherever one touches Thomas Cromwell‚ one finds originality and the unconventional’. This position‚ however‚ has been challenged by John Guy who draws one’s attention

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    Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25‚ 1599‚ in Huntingdon‚ England. Cromwell studied law but did not graduate from Cambridge University. His parents were wealthy and influential in Huntingdon but in the seventeenth century the family´s fortunes declined. In 1620s he was getting involved in local politics‚ and after he began serving in London as one of Huntingdon’s Members of Parliament. He died on September 3‚ 1659‚ in London. He was elected to Short and Long Parliaments of

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    One More Time 1. The discussion at hand is whether or not legacy students should have a better chance of getting accepted into a school. 2. Yes‚ considering a Cromwell legacy is four times more likely to gain acceptance than the applicants without any connections or special talents‚ this is a significant number. 3. Cromwell assumes that legacies are more likely to do well because they have a family connection. They also assume the legacy students are less likely to transfer to another school. The

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    Oliver Cromwell was the second ruler of England after Charles the 1st execution. He did not want to take the title King so he became the Lord Protector. He became a ruler only because of how corrupt the parliament was. He was a very religious man he was a puritan and he thought that everyone should live their lives in his example‚ as a puritan he believed that if you worked hard you would go to heaven and pointless enjoyment was a bad thing. This was the reason for why he shut down a lot of inns

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    Historians have very different opinions about Cromwell. Some say he was a hypocrite and acted very much like the king he tried so hard to remove. Others see him as a great military leader and focus on his importance in increasing the power of parliament. They see the execution of Charles 1 as the first step towards democracy in Britain. Opinions at the time were just as divided. Many people thought Cromwell as a hero‚ and they had a lot of evidence to back it. The main one is the fact that he won

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    The leadership of Oliver Cromwell was the most important factor that led to the Parliamentarian’s victory in the Civil wars The English Civil war was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists‚ which were better known as Roundheads and Cavaliers. The war took place between the years 1642 to 1651. There were three wars‚ the first that was from the year 1642 to 1646; the second lasted from the year 1648 to 1649; and the third war‚ which was the

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