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Cromwell, the Lord Protector

Recounts the life, personality, and career of Oliver Cromwell as the Lord Protector of Great Britain from 1649-1660
Print Book, English, [2001], ©1973
1st Grove Press ed View all formats and editions
Grove Press, New York, [2001], ©1973
collective biographies
xvi, 774 pages : map ; 23 cm
9780802137661, 0802137660
45122405
Part 1: The government of himself. By birth a gentleman
His own fields
Growing to authority
Grand remonstrance
Part 2: War and peace. Noble and active Colonel Cromwell
Ironsides
Happy victory
Falling out among themselves
The game at cards
The mischievous war
Providence and necessity
Part 3: The Commonwealth of England. All things become new
Ireland: effusion of blood
Scotland: the decision of the cause
A settlement of the nation
At the edge of prophecies
Part 4: Lord protector. Grandeur
Briers and thorns
At work in the world
Jews and Major-Generals
A royal sceptre
Old Oliver, new ideas
The great captain
Cromwell's dust
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1973