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What did Oliver Cromwell accomplish?

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As one of the generals on the parliamentary side in the English Civil Wars (1642–51) against Charles I, Oliver Cromwell helped overthrow the Stuart monarchy, and, as lord protector(1653–58), he raised England’s status once more to that of a leading European power from the decline it had gone through since the death of Elizabeth I.

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What was Oliver Cromwell’s family like?

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The son of Robert Cromwell—a member of one of Queen Elizabeth I’s parliaments, a landlord, and a justice of the peace—Oliver Cromwell also was descended indirectly on his father’s side from Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, who had helped Oliver’s great-grandfather and grandfather acquire confiscated monastic land in Huntingdon and the Fens.

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