Avatar Posted by lanerough 171 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Cromwell, a highly controversial figure in English history, was the Puritan leader of the parliamentary forces that battled the royalists in the English Civil War. After the execution of Charles I in 1649, Cromwell became Lord Protector and virtual dictator of England. He inherited a divided and war-weary nation, to which he forcibly united Scotland and Ireland for the first time. In the 18th c, which English political party adopted his image in an effort to increase its perceived legitimacy?

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