CromwellIn Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England's prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I's death. |
Contents
By birth a gentleman | 3 |
His own fields | 23 |
Growing to authority | 44 |
Grand Remonstrance | 65 |
Noble and active Colonel Cromwell | 91 |
Ironsides | 120 |
Happy victory | 150 |
Falling out among themselves | 179 |
A settlement of the nation | 391 |
At the edge of prophecies | 424 |
Grandeur | 455 |
Briers and thorns | 484 |
At work in the world | 520 |
Jews and MajorGenerals | 554 |
A royal sceptre | 586 |
Old Oliver new ideas | 619 |
The game at cards | 207 |
The mischievous war | 236 |
Providence and necessity | 262 |
All things become new | 299 |
Ireland effusion of blood | 326 |
Scotland the decision of the cause | 358 |
The great captain | 653 |
Cromwells dust | 678 |
References | 707 |
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