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    ROUNDHEADS, ROYALISTS AND RADICALS

    Aug 08, 2019 4 minutes
    “THE HEAVY CAVALRY, OR CUIRASSIERS, WERE FEW IN NUMBER AND DESCENDED FROM THE HEAVILY ARMOURED KNIGHTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES”

    OLIVER CROMWELL 1599-1658

    THE MILITARY GENIUS WHO ROSE FROM OBSCURITY TO CONQUER AND RULE THE ENTIRE BRITISH ISLES

    A great-great-nephew of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell was born into a minor gentry family and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Elected to Parliament as the MP for Huntingdon in 1628 he nevertheless worked as a gentleman farmer for much of his early life and suffered from depression. Cromwell also developed uncompromising Puritan beliefs and when he was re-elected as the MP for Cambridge in 1640 he became a solid supporter of anti-Episcopalian Parliamentarians.

    Cromwell sided with Parliament when war broke out in 1652 and secured Cambridgeshire for the Roundheads. He witnessed the

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