Cromwell In Ireland Episode 2 (Part 3 of 6)

Wiki"Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. After the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Cromwell dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England, conquered Ireland and Scotland, and ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death from malaria in 1658.

Cromwell was born into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. At times his lifestyle resembled that of a yeoman farmer until his finances were boosted thanks to an inheritance from his uncle. After undergoing a religious conversion during the same decade, he made an Independent style of Puritanism an essential part of his life. Cromwell was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge in the Short (1640) and Long (1640-49) Parliaments, and later entered the English Civil War on the side of the "Roundheads" or Parliamentarians.

As a soldier, he was more than capable (nicknamed "Old Ironsides") and was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to command of the entire army. Cromwell was one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant in 1649 and was a member of the Rump Parliament (1649-1653), being chosen by the Rump to take command of the English campaign in Ireland during 1649-50. He then led a campaign against the Scottish army between 1650 and 1651. On 20 April 1653 he dismissed the Rump Parliament by force, setting up a short-lived nominated assembly known as the Barebones Parliament before being made Lord Protector of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland on 16 December 1653. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but when the Royalists returned to power his corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.

Cromwell has been a controversial figure in the history of the British Isles a regicidal dictator to some historians (such as David Hume and Christopher Hill) and a hero of liberty to others (such as Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner). In Britain he was elected as one of the Top 10 Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll. His measures against Irish Catholics have been characterized by some historians as genocidal or near-genocidal, and in Ireland itself he is widely hated."

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[ComedyRoundTheCorner]

what a shit general! :@

[MYNAMEISTHERANDOMEST]

@TheTwollocks The British lost more than the Irish anyways.

[paddy25c]

@texasgungeek indeed they did , i was using the usa as a collective term , sorry i should have said the csa as well . mea culpa

[texasgungeek]

@paddy25c BOTH THE UNION ARMY AND THE CONFEDERATE ARMY IN THE U.S. CIVIL WAR HAD IRISH BRIGADES.THEY MET AT FREDERICKSBURG IN 1862, AMONG OTHER PLACES.

[XxpauldadudexX]

Funny am English catholic n I h8 anyone killing brit soldiers , but in them days my ppl were irish n i woulda killed english soldiers to save my ppl. Weird history n thanks to my great gran i always have feelings for irish . Not the ones who knee cap n sell drugs n terrorise the catholic community...the twats pretending to be freedom fighters , but REAL normal Irish who just wanna normal life n their nation to be one .

[XxpauldadudexX]

wow Tories is Irish for outlaws....explains the tory party then xD

[paddy25c]

their religion is different not the people, I've traveled the world & people are the same, its religion that divide us, protestants & catholic's are branches of the same tree, if it wasn't for religion this war along with countless others would not have happened , also you misspelled 'their '.

[TheTwollocks]

@paddy25c  then you know the difference between irish catholic and protestant thier not the same people

[paddy25c]

@TheTwollocks just  Irish