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  Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntington, a small town

near Cambridge, on 25 April 1599 to Robert Cromwelland his wife Eliabeth, daughter of !illiam "teward#

Oliver Cromwell remains one of our most famous

$hara$ters in histor%# &rom 1'(9 to 1'5), *arliament ran

England but from Cromwell+s point of view, it was not a

s%stem that wored e-e$tivel% and England, as a nation

was su-ering# As a result, Cromwell, ba$ed b% the

arm%, sent home .*+s and he be$ame the e-e$tive

leader of England from 1'5) to 1'5/#

 0o eep the population+s mind on religion, instead of

having feast da%s to $elebrate the saints as had been

$ommon in .edieval England, one da% in ever% month

was a fast da% 3 %ou did not eat all da%#

He divided up England into 11 areas4 ea$h one was

governed b% a maor6general who was trusted b%

Cromwell# .ost of these generals had been in

Cromwell+s 7ew .odel Arm%# 0he law 3 essentiall%

Cromwell+s law 3 was enfor$ed b% the use of soldiers#

Cromwell banned Christmas as people would have

nown it then# 8% the C1th, Christmas had be$ome aholida% of $elebration and eno%ment 3 espe$iall% after

the problems $aused b% the $ivil war# Cromwell wanted

it returned to a religious $elebration where people

thought about the birth of :esus rather than ate and

dran too mu$h#

Cromwell was seen as a e% ;gure during the $ivil war#

<nder the $ommand of 0homas &airfa=î with Cromwell as

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his deputyî this NEW MODEL ARMY quickly routed the main Royalist 

 force at the Battle of Naseby !une "#$ "%#&'(

>espite his death over )5? %ears ago, to this da%

Cromwell $ontinues to provoe a strong rea$tion

following his signi;$ant role in a dramati$ and troubled

period of 8ritish histor%# He has prompted numerous

monuments, ;lms, television and radio programmes

and been broadl% referen$ed throughout popular

$ulture, from being the $odeword to warn of an

imminent @erman invasion of 8ritain in 19(? to .ont%

*%thon+s 19/9 Oliver Cromwell and more re$entl% the

2??( single b% .orrisse%, rish 8lood, English Heart#

However !inston Chur$hill+s suggestion to name the

8ritish battleship H." Oliver Cromwell when he was

&irst Bord of the Admiralt% did not gain ro%al approval,

funnil% enough