Hello /int/, I'm wanting to know what Oliver Cromwell did 'wrong', because all I know about Cromwell is that he was the dictator during the republican period and then he died and his inept son took over which then led the elite to bring the monarchy back
>>216602654Brought back Jews.
He murdered the king. That was kind of wrong.
He literally dissolved the parliament because they didn't want to be insane like him, he bribed and blackmailed mps to execute the king, he became the sole protector of the country without consent and he reduced the natives Irish to serf status while introducing scots to lord over them, this is all taught in American schools, did you sleep through class?
>>2166026541. Oliver Cromwell committed numerous atrocities against the people of Britain and Ireland.3. Oliver Cromwell let the Jews back into England.
>>216602775>he reduced the natives Irish to serf status while introducing scots to lord over themThis is bad because...?
>>216602775I don't recall being taught any of this or anything about Oliver Cromwell at all. But I am 33 years young. Perhaps the kids now are being taught about him. Also I am drunk so do not take my posts as fact
>>216602848After he died the royalists dug him up and decapitated him, most of the hate in history was for his religious prosecutionsNo one in England hates him now for that because of his model army reforms
>>216602654>killed royalfags>made monarcucks around europe seethe>was a commoner>began the 1st genocide of the irish>was a puritanfag>his son was retardedguy was a mixed bag, but to this day monarcucks seethe whenever he's mentioned and brought destruction to the evil british isleswhich makes him more based than cringe in my bookI feel sorry for the irish though
>>216602654He made the Irish seethe so he was based in my book
>>216603187Don't be: the Irish did it to several places in Britain first while fighting for the crown
>>216603187First genocide of the Irish was under Edward the Bruce brother of Robert, wanted to conquered Ireland as an extension of scotland
>>216603187>was a commonerNot really.>Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599[5] to Robert Cromwell and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward.[6] His birthplace, the Grade II listed Cromwell House, was at that time the site of Huntington Priory, and is commemorated by a plaque.[7] The family's estate derived from Oliver's great-great-grandfather Morgan ap William, a brewer from Glamorgan, Wales, who settled at Putney and married Katherine Cromwell, the sister of Thomas Cromwell, who would become the famous chief minister to Henry VIII. The Cromwells acquired great wealth as occasional beneficiaries of Thomas's administration of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[8]>Oliver's father Robert Williams, alias Cromwell, married Elizabeth Steward, probably in 1591. Cromwell's paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, was one of the two wealthiest landowners in Huntingdonshire. Cromwell's father was of modest means but still a member of the landed gentry.
>>216602654No idea who this Timmy wasI just know the Cromwell name from the tank from WW2 o algo
>"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you might be mistaken."One of my favourite quotes from him. Said it to the Scots after they tried to make Charles 2 king
>>216602654IDK but "lord protector" is one hell of a cool title.
>>216602775Marquis Pombal did the same in Portugal and they think he's based.
>>216602775If I remember correctly, He was pretty dang pro parlment and was forced to dissolve it after gridlock.
>>216603629He never was, only for his crazy friends, he didn't like the idea of dissent
>>216603629He was forced to dissolve it because a majority of parliament were blindly loyal and wanted to let the king back despite him being pretty open about refusing to take any responsibility for the civil war or give up any of the powers that he had been abusing that caused it (despite the fact that he didn't actually have these powers under English law and exercising them had been illegal)History proved Cromwell right when less than thirty years later they kicked out James II and rigged the succession to favor a series of powerless women and feckless Germans, both of whom would be utterly dependent on parliament.
>>216604207>despite him being pretty open about refusing to take any responsibility for the civil war or give up any of the powers that he had been abusing that caused it"If God had a problem with me, I wouldn't have been born into royalty in the first place. Checkmate, chud"
Also, the Irish hate him because he liked to massacre towns that wouldn't surrender and starve out the countryside to get rid of guerrillas.It's worth noting that they then spent most of the next 150 years longing for the return of the Stuarts, who had been just as brutal to them and who had started the plantations but at least they were Catholic o algo
