1.  Was Lord Protector of England for
much of the 1650s, ruling in place
of the country's traditional
monarchy.
 Cromwell was a military leader in
a long series of civil war battles,
which ended with Charles I
imprisoned and finally beheaded
in 1649.
 Cromwell lived most of his life as
a yeoman farmer until him
inherited his uncle finances.

2.  Cromwell's brutality in Ireland
has been strongly debated.
 Cromwell is responsible for the
death and deportation 50,000
men, women and children.
 The Sack of Drogheda was a
justify as his personal revenge of
the massacres of Protestants
settler in Ulster in 1641. knowing
as the “ The righteous judgment
of God on these barbarous
wretches, who have imbued their
hands with so much innocent
blood.”