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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... troops from any foreign country which could be induced to come to his aid , was no longer to be trusted with power . As So far as we know , Cromwell did not intervene in the debates on the control of the militia . He was mainly ...
... troops from any foreign country which could be induced to come to his aid , was no longer to be trusted with power . As So far as we know , Cromwell did not intervene in the debates on the control of the militia . He was mainly ...
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... troop of arquebusiers - the light horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity in the fen - land had been , if possible , in- creased by his conduct in a ...
... troop of arquebusiers - the light horse of the day - in his own county . He can have had no difficulty in finding recruits , especially as his popularity in the fen - land had been , if possible , in- creased by his conduct in a ...
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... troop in the Parliamentary army . To the end of his career Cromwell never forwarded the prospects of a kinsman or friend ... troops are gentlemen's sons and persons of quality . Do you think the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ...
... troop in the Parliamentary army . To the end of his career Cromwell never forwarded the prospects of a kinsman or friend ... troops are gentlemen's sons and persons of quality . Do you think the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ...
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... troop was one of the few not swept away by Rupert's headlong charge , probably because coming late upon the field he did not join the main army till the Royalist horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the ...
... troop was one of the few not swept away by Rupert's headlong charge , probably because coming late upon the field he did not join the main army till the Royalist horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the ...
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... troops , and though defeated on Lansdown by Sir William Waller , was succoured by a Royalist army which , on July 13 , crushed Waller's army on Round- way Down ; whilst on July 26 Bristol was taken by Rupert , and the whole of the ...
... troops , and though defeated on Lansdown by Sir William Waller , was succoured by a Royalist army which , on July 13 , crushed Waller's army on Round- way Down ; whilst on July 26 Bristol was taken by Rupert , and the whole of the ...
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