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A careful exploration of Henry Ireton’s role in the initial and subsequent campaigns in Ireland with a close look at the political relationship between Cromwell and Ireton. Keywords: Henry Ireton , Cromwell , New Model Army , Ormond , Drogheda , Wexford
Henry Ireton. (1611-1651), Parliamentary general. Sitter associated with 17 portraits. A leading Parliamentarian and an austere Puritan, Ireton was one of Cromwell's ablest supporters, noted for his powers of leadership and for his political integrity. He married Bridget, Cromwell's daughter, in 1646.
Learn about Henry Ireton , a prominent general and politician of the Parliamentarian faction during the English Civil War and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.
Howard Shaw introduces Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law, a regicide, and a man with principles and temper of a Cassius, who “stuck at nothing.”. On Saturday, January 30th, 1661, the twelfth anniversary of the execution of Charles I, the disinterred bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and John Bradshaw were drawn on hurdles from ...
12 de sept. de 2012 · The Remonstrance, drafted principally by Ireton in November 1648, marked the political conclusion of articulating Charles' guilt and equating him with those royalists who had already been executed. It is likely that Ireton believed Charles should die. Enacting this was, however, rather different.
12 de sept. de 2012 · The army's position, written by Ireton, emerged as the Solemn Engagement of 5 June 1647. Like most of the significant documents which emerged from the army in the period before Charles' execution, the Solemn Engagement was principally the work of Ireton, in consultation with others. The imagery employed by Walker in his portrait hints at Ireton ...
Henry Ireton was the brain trust, the "alpha and omega" of the New Model Army, as John Lilburne labeled him. He was also the engine driving forward the revolutionary events in England between 1647 and 1649. Even before marrying Oliver Cromwell's daughter Bridget in 1646 he had become Cromwell's closest friend and confidant.
