Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, 1909 - 319 páginas This volume is an extensive biography of Oliver Cromwell, but according to its preface, the author suggests that it is a history. Gardiner makes a point to distinguish a history with a biographical viewpoint from that of a strict biography. |
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... fighting , alternating with efforts to make peace without the conditions which might have brought peace within sight . It was not to be expected either that Parliament would accept Charles on his own terms , or that Charles would bow ...
... fighting , alternating with efforts to make peace without the conditions which might have brought peace within sight . It was not to be expected either that Parliament would accept Charles on his own terms , or that Charles would bow ...
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... fight . Yet Cromwell had no slight difficulties against which to contend . When , by the end of April , he had cleared the shires of the association from hostile forces , he made his way into Lincolnshire , and called on the ...
... fight . Yet Cromwell had no slight difficulties against which to contend . When , by the end of April , he had cleared the shires of the association from hostile forces , he made his way into Lincolnshire , and called on the ...
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... fight the enemy , unless he could choose his officers for their military efficiency , and not for their Presbyterian opinions ? The Major- General of Manchester's army - Crawford , a Scot of the narrowest Presbyterian type - had ...
... fight the enemy , unless he could choose his officers for their military efficiency , and not for their Presbyterian opinions ? The Major- General of Manchester's army - Crawford , a Scot of the narrowest Presbyterian type - had ...
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... fighting ever hereafter . If so , let us make peace , be it never so base . " Each of the two men had fixed upon one side of the problem which England was called upon to solve . Manchester was appalled by the political difficulty ...
... fighting ever hereafter . If so , let us make peace , be it never so base . " Each of the two men had fixed upon one side of the problem which England was called upon to solve . Manchester was appalled by the political difficulty ...
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... fights for , and loves what he knows , than that which you call a gentleman and nothing else . I honour a gentleman that is so indeed . " There was no distinction of social rank amongst the officers of the New Model . Amongst them were ...
... fights for , and loves what he knows , than that which you call a gentleman and nothing else . I honour a gentleman that is so indeed . " There was no distinction of social rank amongst the officers of the New Model . Amongst them were ...
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