No, not really. Cromwell helped the Parliamentarians win the war against a would be absolute monarch. Granted, he became a military dictator, but given the situation, I don’t see what else he could have done between the various factions of the Army, Landowners, Monarchists, Levelers, Diggers, Ranters, Puritans, Non-Conformists, High-Church Anglicans etc.
The world would be a poorer place if Cromwell had not been born....
Absolutely agree - he was a most unwilling “dictator”..also, contary to common misconceptions, he loved singing and dancing and good beer but not in excess. His marriage was also a genuine love match, not always so usual in those days
I doubt the Irish would agree. There’s a street in Dundalk called Scarlett Street, socalled because of the blood which flowed from Cromwell’s butchering of the Irish. He was a murderer.