biography
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| lived:
| (1619–84)
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| biography:
| English general, born in Calton, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied law, then joined the parliamentary army in the English Civil War, commanding the cavalry at Marston Moor (1644). He helped to install Oliver Cromwell as protector, but opposed the movement to declare him king, and headed the Cabal which overthrew Richard Cromwell in 1659. Considered the leader of the ‘fifth monarchy’, or extreme republican party, he suppressed the Royalist insurrection of August 1659, and virtually governed the country with his officers as the ‘committee of safety’. At the Restoration (1661) he was tried, and imprisoned on Drake's I, Plymouth, until his death. |
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