Tell me about Cromwell?

Question

Speed course in who he was, what he did, and how he helped Britain became what it is today and what it would be like had he not been around. But then i think he was the geezer that stopped the gunplot or not? Hmmm

Oops, i meant the gunpowder plot.

For those couple of cynics, this ain't no homework. I would never trust answers to be proper unless they are sourced. But off the record, i do appreciate people that can teach me something in a nutshell and make it intereting enough for me to llok more into it. I ain't no film person either but someone mentioned the film so i might just watch that.

Answer 1

commoner who lead the civil war (roundheads v cavaliers), executed monarch of the time, charles I, lead a strict protestant government, got unpopular. cromwells son took over, became more unpopular because noone could do anything fun. Got charles II (other guys son) to be monarch again

Answer 2

Oliver Cromwell was a `puritan` a strictly religious man, who disliked the `high` church with all of its` trappings and wealth . He detested the monarchy and all the `royalists` who followed the King, and for a while deposed the crown and took it upon himself to rule the country, the soldiers under him were called `round heads` because of the shape of the helmets they wore and their hair cuts, which were very short compared to the long flowing curls of the royalists.Cromwell desecrated the churches and ransacked the tombs where previous kings were buried, All that remains of the kings of England after that were just oddments of their crushed bones, He took silver and gold and trappings from the churches, set the churches on fire and killed the priests. Despite all this, he was a dammed good soldier and parliamentarian. After this the crown lost a great deal of its` power and influence over the running of the country. I am sorry that I cannot right now remember more details of his policies, but it is a long time since I left school !!

Answer 3

Oliver Cromwell change into born in Huntingdon on April twenty fifth 1599. seeing that his demise as Lord Protector in 1658 his existence, objectives, motives and moves were the challenge of scholarly study and extreme, in many situations vitriolic, debate. even if that position is taken on Cromwell, "chief of adult men" or "courageous undesirable guy", his importance as a key parent in between the most stricken classes of British history is unassailable. Oliver Cromwell change into born right into a relatives which change into for a time between the wealthiest and maximum influential contained in the realm. knowledgeable at Huntingdon grammar college , now the Cromwell Museum, and at Cambridge college, he grew to change right into a minor East Anglian landowner. He made a living with the aid of farming and accumulating rents, first in his community Huntingdon, then from 1631 in St Ives and from 1636 in Ely. Cromwell's inheritances from his father, who died in 1617, and later from a maternal uncle were no longer great, his income change into modest and he had to help an increasing relatives - widowed mom, spouse and eight little ones. He ranked close to the bottom of the landed elite, the landowning type in many situations labelled 'the gentry' which ruled the social and political existence of the county. till 1640 he performed purely a small function in community administration and no major function in nationwide politics. It change into the civil wars of the 1640s which lifted Cromwell from obscurity to ability

Answer 4

Im no historian but heres what I know. He was a anti monarchist who had King Charles 1 executed .He was a Puritan and I seem to remember that he actually banned Christmas. He was the leader of the Roundheads who won the English Civil War . Richard Harris played him in the film Cromwell.

Answer 5

Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599–September 3, 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for making England a republic and leading the Commonwealth of England. He was a middling gentry farmer for the first forty years of his life; a religious conversion experience made religion the central fact of his life and actions. A brilliant soldier (called "Old Ironsides") he rose from the ranks to command the Army. Politically he took control of England, Scotland, and Ireland as Lord Protector, from December 16, 1653 until his death. Cromwell is a very controversial figure in English history—a regicidal dictator to some historians (such as David Hume and Christopher Hill) and a hero of liberty to others (such as Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner.)

Cromwell's career is full of contradictions. He was a regicide who debated whether to accept the crown himself and decided not—though ironically he had more power than Charles I. He was a parliamentarian who ordered his soldiers to dissolve parliaments. He displayed a devotion to Christian values yet his conquests of Scotland and Ireland were brutal. Under his rule, the Protectorate advocated religious liberty of conscience but allowed blasphemers to be tortured. He advocated equitable justice but imprisoned those who criticized his raising taxation outside the agreement of Parliament. Admirers hail him as a strong, stabilizing and stately leader who brought international respect, overthrew tyranny and promoted republicanism and liberty. In a BBC poll of 100 Greatest Britons, he was voted number 10. Cromwell's critics ridiculed him as an overly ambitious hypocrite who betrayed the cause of liberty, imposed puritanical values and showed scant respect for the nation's traditions. When the Royalists returned to power, his corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.

Answer 6

for a start he didn,t stop the gunpowder ..he hadn,t been born yet..he was the man who executed Charles 1 and founded the Republic....he did away with the royal family..he was one of this country,s best generals and was in power for 5 years

Answer 7

I think Oliver Cromwell really healped to form the british army, and the first red coated squads...

Answer 8

This looks like a homework question.

Perhaps you should go to a library and check out Cromwell from the encyclopedias. Or, search him on the Internet.

You should do your own work.

Answer 9

Go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_cromwell

Answer 10

ROFLMAO

Cromwell was 6 yrs. old when Guy Fawlkes was arrested for trying to blow things up.

10 mins. on the Internet told me this.

Reading - it's worth a try.

Besides, I charge to do other people's homework.