At one point the army in Ireland found itself nine months in arrears of pay, and in England three to four. When Oliver Cromwell died in September of that year, his oldest son Richard inherited the ...

Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver ... become king of England. In 1657, Parliament actually offered Cromwell the role ...

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife ...