Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, … Wikipedia
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19th Aug Winwick Pass Fighting in the fields outside the town of Preston, the English Parliamentarian forces of Oliver Cromwell inflict a major reverse on the Anglo - Scottish Royalist army of the Duke of Hamilton www.badley.info/history/Cromwell-Oliver-England.biog.html
Information about Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658 and his life, legacy and significance: the site is run jointly by the Cromwell Association and the Cromwell Museum www.olivercromwell.org
