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Hace 2 días · Then, once Cromwell had returned to England, the English Commissary, General Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law and key adviser, adopted a deliberate policy of crop burning and starvation. Total excess deaths for the entire period of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Ireland was estimated by Sir William Petty , the 17th-century economist, to be 600,000 out of a total Irish population of ...
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
Hace 5 días · Unfortunately, this remains pure speculation as there is no direct evidence that this was indeed in Cromwell’s mind or that it was his motivating intention, and as John Morrill points out in his introduction to the collection, Cromwell, unlike James II or Napoleon, ‘had no heirs with political ambitions’ (p. 4).
Hace 9 horas · Oliver Cromwell was born, educated and spent half his life in Huntingdon and he had his first brief foray into politics in the town [Cromwell Museum] An exhibition about Oliver Cromwell's home town has raised the possibility he must have seen Mary, Queen of Scots' coffin as a school boy. The Parliamentarian Civil War leader spent his early ...
Hace 4 días · Thomas Cromwell is a good subject for fact and fiction. He was and remains somewhat of an enigma both as a visionary for government efficiency and as an ambitious ‘new man’ rising from the obscurity of a blacksmith’s son to perhaps the most powerful man in England save his king, Henry VIII. Moreover, much like his mentor Cardinal Thomas ...
Hace 4 días · T he portrait of England’s then-oldest-living knight, and the present image of his son, exemplify the loyal and honourable defiance that led the Cromwells to stand firm for King Charles even at this date when the tide of war was irrevocably turning. Sir Oliver was the eldest brother of Robert Cromwell (c.1560 – 1617), father of ...
Hace 3 días · Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 – 425 years ago this year. He lived in the town for over half his life and went to school in the building which is now the Cromwell Museum. The Museum’s new exhibit, opening on 4 May, looks at what Huntingdon was like at that time, and the impact that it had on its most famous resident.
Hace 6 días · A fascinating new exhibition takes a look at the town of Huntingdon in Oliver Cromwell's time. Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in April 1599. Now, 425 years on from the birth of one of the most significant and controversial figures in British history, the Cromwell Museum, which is based in the old school attended by Cromwell, has opened ...
