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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... fleet was master of the sea . Leslie held the inner line , and when at last , on August 27 , Cromwell advanced towards Queensferry , he found Leslie across his path , posted behind a morass . He could but turn back once more to ...
... fleet was master of the sea . Leslie held the inner line , and when at last , on August 27 , Cromwell advanced towards Queensferry , he found Leslie across his path , posted behind a morass . He could but turn back once more to ...
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... fleet which accompanied him not affording space for the accommodation of his whole army . " The enemy , " wrote Cromwell , " lieth so upon the hills that we know not how to come that way without difficulty , and our lying here daily ...
... fleet which accompanied him not affording space for the accommodation of his whole army . " The enemy , " wrote Cromwell , " lieth so upon the hills that we know not how to come that way without difficulty , and our lying here daily ...
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... fleet commanded by Blake , he had neglected to lower his flag , as required by English commanders in satisfaction of their claim to enforce the Sovereignty over the British Seas , a claim which the Commonwealth had received from the ...
... fleet commanded by Blake , he had neglected to lower his flag , as required by English commanders in satisfaction of their claim to enforce the Sovereignty over the British Seas , a claim which the Commonwealth had received from the ...
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... fleet . Scarcely less important was the concurrence of the judges , amongst them that honourable man and eminent lawyer Matthew Hale , who had won Oliver's approbation by his services in the cause of law - reform . Hale , indeed ...
... fleet . Scarcely less important was the concurrence of the judges , amongst them that honourable man and eminent lawyer Matthew Hale , who had won Oliver's approbation by his services in the cause of law - reform . Hale , indeed ...
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... fleet . That fleet rallied to the new Government ; even Blake , who was hostile at first , accepting the result of political changes , and finally throwing in his lot with the THE NOMINATED PARLIAMENT . 233.
... fleet . That fleet rallied to the new Government ; even Blake , who was hostile at first , accepting the result of political changes , and finally throwing in his lot with the THE NOMINATED PARLIAMENT . 233.
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