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Major-General Thomas Harrison, baptised 16 July 1616, executed 13 October 1660, was a prominent member of the radical religious sect known as the Fifth Monarchists, and a soldier who fought for Parliament and the Commonwealth in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Thomas Harrison (born 1616, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Oct. 13, 1660, London) was an English Parliamentarian general and a leader in the Fifth Monarchy sect (men who believed in the imminent coming of Christ and were willing to rule until he came).
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El general de división Thomas Harrison, bautizado el 16 de julio de 1616, ejecutado el 13 de octubre de 1660, fue un destacado miembro de la secta religiosa radical conocida como los Quintos Monárquicos, y un soldado que luchó por el Parlamento y el Commonwealth en las Guerras de los Tres Reinos.
Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him ’looking as cheerful as any man could do in ...
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29 de may. de 2018 · Harrison, Thomas (1606–60). Soldier and regicide. A butcher's son, born at Newcastle under Lyme, and trained as a lawyer, Harrison enlisted in Essex's bodyguard in 1642, fighting at Marston Moor as a major in Fleetwood's horse and subsequently at Naseby, Langport, and the sieges of Winchester and Basing.
23 de sept. de 2017 · Harrison was one of the major figures of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland who established a reputation for himself as a field officer. His reputation was enhanced throughout the 1650s and ensured that he was something of a dark celebrity in 1660.
Major-General Thomas Harrison: Millenarianism, Fifth Monarchism and the English Revolution 1616–1660. David Farr. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xi + 304 pp. $134.95. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018. Bernard Capp. Article. Metrics. Get access Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
