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OLIVER CROMWELL
WHO WAS OLIVER CROMWELL
   25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658
 English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England
    into a republican Commonwealth
 Later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland
 Middle Class- remained relatively obscure for the first 40 years
of his life
 English Civil War rose from leading a single cavalry troop to
command of the entire army.
 Member of Rump Parliament (1649-1653)
 Dissipated Rump by force and set up Barebones Parliament
 Buried in Westminster Abbey, but when the Royalists returned
to power his corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.
 a regicidal dictator to some historians, and a hero of liberty to others
 His measures against Irish Catholics have been characterized by some
historians as genocidal or near-genocidal
DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL
  3 September 1658, he was given a public funeral at
   Westminster Abbey, equal to those of monarchs before
   him
 His legacy passed to his son Richard, who was
   overthrown by the army in 1659
 Symbolic value of the head changed
 over time. While it was spiked on a
 pole above the London skyline, it
gave a potent warning to spectators.
In the 18th century, the head became a
curiosity and a relic.

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Oliver Cromwell

  • 2. WHO WAS OLIVER CROMWELL  25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658  English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth  Later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland  Middle Class- remained relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life  English Civil War rose from leading a single cavalry troop to command of the entire army.  Member of Rump Parliament (1649-1653)  Dissipated Rump by force and set up Barebones Parliament  Buried in Westminster Abbey, but when the Royalists returned to power his corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.  a regicidal dictator to some historians, and a hero of liberty to others  His measures against Irish Catholics have been characterized by some historians as genocidal or near-genocidal
  • 3. DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL  3 September 1658, he was given a public funeral at Westminster Abbey, equal to those of monarchs before him  His legacy passed to his son Richard, who was overthrown by the army in 1659  Symbolic value of the head changed over time. While it was spiked on a pole above the London skyline, it gave a potent warning to spectators. In the 18th century, the head became a curiosity and a relic.