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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... officers who might be relied on - in one case to strike for the Crown , in the other case to strike for the Commons . Pym , who was leading his party in the House with consummate dexterity , seized the opportunity of ask- ing , not ...
... officers who might be relied on - in one case to strike for the Crown , in the other case to strike for the Commons . Pym , who was leading his party in the House with consummate dexterity , seized the opportunity of ask- ing , not ...
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... officer requires to know when to draw rein , as well as when to charge , and to subordinate the conduct of the attack in which he is personally engaged to the needs of the army as a whole . Many months were to pass away before Cromwell ...
... officer requires to know when to draw rein , as well as when to charge , and to subordinate the conduct of the attack in which he is personally engaged to the needs of the army as a whole . Many months were to pass away before Cromwell ...
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... 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 objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer ...
... 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 objected to the promotion of an officer named Packer ...
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... officers from the indignity of tendering the resignation of their commissions , a new Self - Denying Ordinance was passed on April 3 , by which members of either House were discharged from their military or civil posts within forty days ...
... officers from the indignity of tendering the resignation of their commissions , a new Self - Denying Ordinance was passed on April 3 , by which members of either House were discharged from their military or civil posts within forty days ...
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... officers ; and here at least Cromwell's views had full scope . On the mere ground that it was desirable to place command in the hands of those who were most strenuous in the prose- cution of the war , the preference was certain to be ...
... officers ; and here at least Cromwell's views had full scope . On the mere ground that it was desirable to place command in the hands of those who were most strenuous in the prose- cution of the war , the preference was certain to be ...
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