Historical films are bound to have dramatic inaccuracies, but few have been as controversially skewed as 1970's Cromwell.
So wrote the politician John Thurloe to Henry Cromwell, fourth son of Oliver, in March 1658 ... England’s national debt was far lower than that of France or the Netherlands, and a few swift ...
Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...
On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell ... thither,—satisfaction in none of these things would be given, but was denied." [9] All we ask, Cromwell told Parliament, is liberty.