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The miserable last days of England’s short-lived republic
When Oliver Cromwell died in September of that year, his oldest son Richard inherited the title of Lord Protector, and with it a state that Henry Reece describes as a “teat with too many mouths ...
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Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...