101. Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658 British civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 16381660 Portrait ofoliver cromwell oliver cromwell was born into a family of minor Huntingdon http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/oliver-cromwell.htm

@import url(../css/main.css); Skip Navigation Home Site Map Search ... Links Oliver Cromwell, O liver Cromwell was born into a family of minor Huntingdon gentry on 25 April 1599 and baptised at St John's Church, Huntingdon, four days later. Oliver attended the free school attached to the hospital of St John, Huntingdon, where he was taught by Dr Thomas Beard, then spent a year at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was noted more for his enthusiasm for sports and games than for his academic abilities. Cromwell's university life was cut short when his father died in June 1617 and he returned home to manage his family estate and to look after his widowed mother and seven unmarried sisters. According to some accounts he also studied law at Lincoln's Inn, but there is no trace of his name in the Inns of Court records. nine children : five boys and four girls. After his marriage, Cromwell and his growing family settled in Huntingdon. He was elected MP for Huntingdon in the Parliament of 1628, where he became associated with the opposition to King Charles that culminated in the Petition of Right . Some time during the late 1620s, following a period of illness and depression, Cromwell experienced a profound spiritual awakening which left him with deep and uncompromising

102. UKTV: UKTV History: Trivia And Facts: The English Civil War Do you really know what happened during the english civil war? Profile OliverCromwell Top Ten Famous Captains The english civil war http://www.uktv.co.uk/?uktv=standarditem.index&aID=529328

103. Oliver Cromwell - Wikiquote As quoted in To Honour God— The Spirituality of oliver cromwell (1999) by Michael Modern History Source Book; cromwell biography at British civil Wars http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

You did it! Over US$240,000 was donated in the 21 day fund drive. Thank you for your generosity! You are still welcome to make a donation or purchase Wikimedia merchandise Oliver Cromwell From Wikiquote Oliver Cromwell April 25 September 3 English statesman, soldier, and revolutionary; Lord High Protector of the Commonwealth of England Oliver Cromwell Contents Sourced Attributed Quotes of others about Cromwell External links ... edit Sourced No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Statement to M. Bellievre, recorded in the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz; Variant: One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution. On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I , as quoted in A History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.

104. Oliver Cromwell oliver cromwell. cromwell was more responsible for the overthrow of the Stuarts than At first, cromwell left civil affairs in the hands of the Rumpthe http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/cromwell.html

Oliver Cromwell: Constitutional Crisis in England I. The Early Stuarts The constitutional crisis did not begin in England until the seventeenth century, but the outcome of the struggle for power had far-reaching results. Henry VIII had been able to disengage England from Rome with a minimum of difficulty. One daughter, Mary, had made England Catholic again, and another daughter, Elizabeth, had returned her country to the Protestant fold. These sudden changes provoked only minor uprisings and posed no major constitutional problems except in the relationship between church and state. The ease with which the Tudor monarchs changed the official religion may be accounted for by the fact that the great religious revival which had sparked both the Catholic and the Protestant reformations on the continent made little headway in England until near the close of the sixteenth century. There were few devout enough to court martyrdom or to plot the overthrow of the dynasty. The memory of the Wars of the Roses and later the threat of a Spanish invasion bound most Englishmen too closely to their sovereigns to permit rebellion, whatever the justification. Then, too, the Tudors had known when and how to lead public opinion and when to acquiesce in the desires of their subjects. Above all else, they had known how to control parliament. This happy combination of experience and circumstance came to an end when Queen Elizabeth-the last of the Tudors-died in 1603. the English crown passed to her cousin, James Stuart, King of Scotland for thirty-six of his thirty-seven years.

105. The Open Door Web Site : History : The First English Civil War (1642-1646) The First english civil war (16421646). The map shows the approximate divisionof England when war broke out in August 1642. http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/chap4004.html

The Open Door Web Site Search Site Map Biology Chemistry ... Technology History Study Guide New About Gallery The First English Civil War The map shows the approximate division of England when war broke out in August 1642. Parliament seemed to have the advantages from the beginning. It controlled London, with its power and wealth, and the richest regions of the kingdom: the South and East Anglia. It controlled the ports and the navy, thereby preventing the king from getting help from abroad. Many Roundheads were rich merchants and could pay for complete regiments out of their own pockets. Areas loyal to the king, such as the West Country and the North, were poorer. They could provide men but not much money. Strangely, both sides claimed to be fighting for the king! Initially, Parliament simply wanted to defeat the king's army and leave the king on the throne to rule as it considered a king should rule. The Royalists fought for the king whether he was right or wrong in his political struggles. England had seen no real fighting since the end of the War of the Roses in 1485. Since England possessed a powerful navy, it did not need a standing army. Armies were only raised in time of war. Charles only had 300 infantrymen when he declared war on Parliament. He did have the support of his nephew, Prince Rupert (son of Frederick of Bohemia), however, and Rupert commanded 800 cavalrymen.

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