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Oliver Cromwell

English statesman
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Assistant Master and Professor of History, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Consultant editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Oliver Cromwell (born April 25, 1599, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England—died September 3, 1658, London) was an English soldier and statesman, who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars and was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1653–58) during the republican Commonwealth. As one of the generals on the parliamentary side in the English Civil War against King Charles I, Cromwell helped to bring about the overthrow of the Stuart monarchy, and, as lord protector,...

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