You are looking at 1-20 of 710 entries for:
- All: Oliver Cromwell x
Did you mean Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
Dan Borvan
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...of Oliver Cromwell (2 vols, London, 1845). T. Carlyle and S. C. Lomas (eds), The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (3 vols, New York, 1904). C. H. Firth , Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans (London, 1900). R. S. Paul , The Lord Protector: Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell (London, 1955). C. Hill , God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (London, 1970). B. Coward , Oliver Cromwell (Harlow, 1991). P. Gaunt , Oliver Cromwell (Oxford, 1996). J. S. Wheeler , Cromwell in...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
Cathy Shrank
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ), Lord Protector . He is often wrongly accused of closing the theatres in 1650 . In fact, he was fighting the Scots at the time. Theatres reopened at the Restoration in 1660 . Cathy...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ) Lord Protector of England ( 1653–58 ). A committed Puritan, Cromwell entered Parliament In 1628 and was an active critic of Charles I in the Long Parliament ( 1640 ). His tactical and organizational abilities became apparent in the first of the English Civil War , when his Ironsides helped defeat the Cavaliers at Marston Moor ( 1644 ). In 1645 he was made second in command to Sir Thomas Fairfax , and helped form the New Model Army . After a decisive victory at Naseby ( 1645 ), Cromwell emerged as the leading voice...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ) Soldier , politician , general , and from 1653 to 1658 lord protector, the subject of innumerable contemporary pamphlets, satires, odes, and panegyrics. Andrew Marvell 's ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland’, written in 1650 , and his The First Anniversary of the Government under his Highness the Lord Protector ( 1655 ) are notable expressions of balanced admiration for Cromwell's ‘active star’; ‘If these the times, then this must be the man.’ John Milton , who was Latin secretary to the newly formed...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)([Hist.]) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
..., Oliver [Hist.] ( 1599–1658 ) The English general who led the parliamentary forces, or Roundheads, against Charles I in the English Civil War. After the Roundhead victory, Cromwell helped to arrange the trial and execution of Charles I and set up a republican government, becoming in 1653 , as lord protector, the ruler of Scotland, Ireland, and England and Wales. > An anti-royalist revolutionary The pity of it is, I hear such stuff from my peers. Elegant ideas for a social re-ordering. Pleasing plans for a community of reason. And Louis is weak....
Cromwell, Oliver Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
..., Oliver . Chiefly remembered in folk tradition as a destroyer. A considerable number of castles and manor houses, especially in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, are said (incorrectly) to have been destroyed or severely damaged by Cromwell's cannon-fire an even larger number of churches, in several different counties, are said to have been desecrated by Cromwell (or Cromwell's men) stabling horses there. Presumably as a result of this violent and destructive reputation, Cromwell became a bogey figure. Flora Thompson mentions in her Lark Rise to...
Cromwell, Oliver (b. c. 1752) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
..., Oliver ( b. c. 1752 ; d. 24 January 1853 ), an African American Patriot in the Revolutionary War. Oliver Cromwell was born a free African American in Burlington County, New Jersey, in the town that later became Columbus. He lived with the family of John Hutchin, a farmer, and was expected to become a farmer as well. Little else is known about Cromwell's life before he was twenty, the age at which he enlisted in a company attached to the Second New Jersey Regiment, led by Colonel Israel Shreve . In 1772 free African Americans were permitted to fight...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ) English general and statesman . He was the driving force in the revolutionary opposition to Charles I in the English Civil War, and was the leader of the Parliamentary forces (or Roundheads), winning decisive battles at Marston Moor and Naseby. After the trial and execution of Charles I, he returned to military command to suppress resistance to the Commonwealth in Ireland and Scotland, finally defeating a Scottish army at Worcester ( 1651 ) led by the future Charles II. With the establishment of the Protectorate , Cromwell...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
J. R. Jones
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...and political radicals biding their time. And the nation generally wanted no more than order, stability, lower taxes, and fewer soldiers, things that the exiled Stuarts could promise, as none of Cromwell’s successors could. J. R. Jones Gregg, P. , Oliver Cromwell (1988); Morrill, J. , Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (1990); Smith, D. L. , Oliver Cromwell (Cambridge,...
Cromwell, Oliver Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ). General and lord protector . It is still difficult to appreciate the unique character of Cromwell's career. In a country governed by custom, precedent, and the common law, Cromwell completely changed the ancient frame of government, reforming Parliament and imposing a written constitution. By conquest he incorporated the separate kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland into a single commonwealth with England. He remains the only British statesman whose entire career depended on the control and use of military power. Yet his achievement...
Cromwell, Oliver (1600–58) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1600–58 ). Ireland's first and only commoner lord lieutenant , he campaigned in Ireland between 15 August 1649 and 26 May 1650 . Backed by a 20,000 strong army, a huge artillery train, and a large navy, Cromwell projected himself as a providential liberator from Irish barbarism, royalist misrule, and Catholic hypocrisy. His best remembered actions were the sieges of Drogheda ( 11 Sept. 1649 ) and Wexford ( 11 Oct. 1649 ). Giving no quarter to garrisons refusing to surrender was in line with contemporary European practice. However,...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ) , opposition MP under Charles I and Parliament's leading military commander in the Civil War. He ruled Britain and Ireland as Lord Protector from the end of 1653 until his death. In Ireland he is remembered mainly for the period August 1649–May 1650 , when he took charge of the Parliamentary army and presided over the capture of Drogheda ( 11 September 1649 ) and Wexford ( 11 October 1649 ), each followed by the massacre of the garrison and its inhabitants. The period 1649–58 saw the suppression of Catholic resistance [ see ...
Cromwell, Oliver (b. 25 Apr. 1599) Quick reference
The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
..., Oliver , b. 25 Apr. 1599 , s. of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward ; m. Elizabeth Bourchier , 22 Aug. 1620 ; issue: Robert , Oliver , Richard , Henry , Bridget , Elizabeth , Mary , Frances ; d. 3 Sept. 1658 ; bur. Westminster abbey, exhumed 1661 . For five weeks in 1657 , while Cromwell hesitated whether to accept the crown, it looked as if he would become Oliver I , king of England. He had long had many of the prerogatives of a monarch, using the royal palaces and creating peers, and more real power than most monarchs had ever...
Cromwell, Oliver Quick reference
A Dictionary of Sports Studies
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ) A Puritan convert in the 1630s, and a parliamentarian (MP for the city of Cambridge) from 1640–42 who, after leading parliamentary forces against royalist armies, rose to the head of the successful revolutionary movement, assuming the role of ‘Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland’ in 1653 . Cromwell entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, two days before his seventeenth birthday, but left after only fourteen months immediately following the death of his father. His early adult life was one of fluctuating fortunes as...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ), soldier and statesman, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth ( 1653–8 ). He began his career as a Member of the Long Parliament for Cambridge who returned to his native county when the English civil war broke out to raise a troop of horse against the king ( see British civil wars ). Until then his career had provided little clue of the greatness to come. A gentleman of modest means he had, around 1630 , undergone a Calvinist conversion experience which transformed his life. His troop of horse soon swelled to two regiments, called...
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Oliver ( 1599–1658 ), Lord Protector . Having been elected MP for Cambridge in 1640 , he strongly supported the religious and political views of the Puritan party, which he combined with the fervent spirituality of the Independents . When the Civil War broke out ( 1642 ), it appeared to him, as to Charles I , as a religious struggle. He built up a magnificently trained army, which defeated the royal forces. He urged the need to execute the King and was among those who signed Charles I’s death warrant. He then ruthlessly put down rebellion in ...
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Oliver Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658 English Parliamentary general and statesman , Lord Protector of the Commonwealth from 1653 . On Cromwell: see arnold , blacker , clarendon , dryden , milton , pope ; see also misquotations A few honest men are better than numbers. letter to William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (2nd ed., 1846) few honest men better than numbers I would rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that...
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Oliver Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658 English soldier and statesman ; Lord Protector from 1653 A few honest men are better than numbers. letter to William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (2nd ed., 1846) few honest men better than numbers I would rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call ‘a gentleman’ and is nothing else. letter to William Spring, September 1643 plain russet -coated captain plain russet-coated ...
Oliver Cromwell (15991658) Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...Oliver Cromwell 1599 1658 English soldier and Parliamentarian Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. Thus Cromwell during his Irish campaign in 1649. There is some doubt whether he really said it at all, as it was ascribed to him long after his death by a certain Valentine Blacker (1778–1823) in an Orange ballad, ‘Oliver's Advice’ (published 1856). The part about keeping one's powder dry is no more than sensible advice from the days when gunpowder had to be kept dry if it was to be used at all. The overall idiomatic injunction means,...
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...0Oliver Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658 English soldier and statesman ; Lord Protector from 1653 . See also last words , misquotations on being asked by Lord falkland what he would have done if the Grand Remonstrance of 1641 against the King had not passed: I would have sold all I had the next morning, and never have seen England more. Clarendon History of the Rebellion (1826) would have sold all I had never have seen England more A few honest men are better than numbers. letter to William Spring, September 1643 few honest men better...
