Oliver Cromwell

By Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Book Overview

1901. The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. Cromwell rose from the middle ranks of English society to be Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, the only non-royal ever to hold that position. He played a leading role in bringing Charles I to trial and to execution; he undertook the most complete and the most brutal military conquest ever undertaken by the English over their neighbors; he championed a degree of religious freedom otherwise unknown in England before the last one hundred years; but the experiment he led collapsed within two years of his death, and his corpse dangled from a gibbet at Tyburn. He was, and remains, one of the most contentious figures in world history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715811819
• ISBN13: 9780715811818
• Release Date: November 1976
• Publisher: Wills & Hepworth
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.