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Oliver Cromwell: The Man Who Killed a King

Oct 21, 2018 - He’s the man who killed a king.

Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I’s bloody execution in 1649.

Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this smalltime farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all.


2 posted on 01/30/2024 4:30:49 PM PST by Bratch
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4 posted on 01/30/2024 4:50:21 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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