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The English Civil War A Military History

Peter Gaunt

'Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory o...

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The author described Oliver Cromwell's family as one of the leading families of East Anglia, but never at the absolute pinnacle. Several family members were knighted, elected to parliament and had grand properties.

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Oliver Cromwell was born into a family that for a time have become one of the leading families of East Anglia.

— Episode: Oliver Cromwell Part 1: The Rise of Iron...

Episode: Oliver Cromwell Part 1: The Rise of Ironsides

The author described Oliver Cromwell's family as one of the leading families of East Anglia, but never at the absolute pinnacle. Several family members were knighted, elected to parliament and had grand properties.

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Oliver Cromwell was born into a family that for a time have become one of the leading families of East Anglia.

They were never at the absolute pinnacle.

They were never peers or aristocrats.

But several members of that family were knighted.

Several members of that family were elected to parliament as MPs and they had quite grand properties in Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire.

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