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When i put the book down, i thought what a in-humane man he was.
His ''sacking'' of Drogheda must have been the lowest point for him and his new model army.
No wonder the name Cromwell still sends shudders down the backs of Irish men and women.
I never knew that his corpse was dug up and hung drawn and quartered by royalist in 1660
I'm no fan of his. Particularly that he presided over the massacre of millions of Catholics
But........ he was the bridge which took Britain to democracy, eventually. The Walpole guy and his successors to this day owe a lot to Cromwell. He made it possible.
I'm no fan of his. Particularly that he presided over the massacre of millions of Catholics
But........ he was the bridge which took Britain to democracy, eventually. The Walpole guy and his successors to this day owe a lot to Cromwell. He made it possible.
Well I kind'a doubt it was millions, c'mon, I don't like the bastard either but millions?
But you're certainly right about his effect, as history goes I gotta put him with the progressives.
Guys, the Israelites wandered for 40 years in the wilderness. So, you really think it's 40?
'massacring millions' is more of an idiom alluding towards mass murder.
There's nothing harmful about gravitating towards the catholics when it comes to Cromwell. This age of history was deeply dyed with the religious affiliations of Europe.
I'm no fan of his. Particularly that he presided over the massacre of millions of Catholics
But........ he was the bridge which took Britain to democracy, eventually. The Walpole guy and his successors to this day owe a lot to Cromwell. He made it possible.
Lord and Protector Oliver Cromwell ended Royal power and replaced it with the Parliament being supreme going forward. Cromwell also cracked down on religious noncomformists which lead to groups like the Purtians, Pilgrims, Anabaptists and Quakers heading to the American colonies to get away from Cromwell's Commomwealth. Cromwell was viewed as committing regicide (Killing of a King) and like revolutionary France was shunned by the Kings of Europe.
The Puritans in general were sanctimonious and intolerant prigs. They disapproved of drinking alcohol and playing games - many traditional games and sports were banned by them in England. They also banned Christmas for over 20 years in Boston MA.
That Oliver Cromwell comes across as a very unattractive man may be in part due to his religious conversion to Puritanism after he had turned 40 years of age. Religious converts are often more zealous than those raised in a religion (imho).
Cromwell was a necessary evil for Great Britain. He carried out a revolution not against royalists, but against "Chevaliers" with absolutist leanings inspired by the Bourbons. As all revolutionaries fighting against tyrants, he became a tyrant.
He put everything into a pot and tried to create a "Anticatholic League", but he failed because he needed the French. His revolution, just as many in Germany and in Spain (1515) was predemocratic and bourgeois, but he vanquished.
A Republic in those years was next to impossible, even less a religious republic penned against Royalists (all Europe), Catholics...
But I think he was a necessary evil. At that time, Europe was being torn apart by religious wars, he couldn't act differently.
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