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What kind of man was Oliver Cromwell?
Oliver Cromwell went to college in Cambridge and studied law in London. ...
Cromwell as a soldier:
Some people believed that Cromwell demonstrated cruelty towards his enemies. ...
Cromwell as a leader:
Cromwell demonstrated little tolerance for people who did not do what he wanted. ... However, what Cromwell was asking parliament to do was to pass laws which gave greater freedom to people, and he had a right to be angry that the “rump” of Charles’s parliament was preventing him from doing this. ...
Cromwell was accused by some, such as in Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, as wanting to be a greater power than any king (Source 9). ...
Cromwell believed in religious toleration. ... When Barebone’s Parliament in 1656 gave terrible punishments to James Nayler, Cromwell objected believing it to be limiting the freedom he had spent years fighting for.
Approximate Word count = 620
Approximate Pages = 2.5
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