Oliver Cromwell

By: Tom Blanton

England a Republic Commonwealth

• After defeating the royalists in the English Civil War, Cromwell became Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland

• Ruled for only 5 years

until his death

• Fought on side with the “Roundheads”

• Parliament exercised both executive

and legislative powers

• Establishment of Commonwealth was in 1649

Politics: 1647–1649

• During 1648, Cromwell's letters and speeches started to become heavily based on biblical imagery

• At Preston, Cromwell won a victory against an enemy army twice the size of his own

• Cromwell and Henry Ireton then drafted a manifesto, the “Heads of Proposals“, designed to check the powers of the executive

• Outbreak of the Second English Civil War in 1648, when the King tried to regain power by force of arms.