Oliver Cromwell
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"English Civil War:"

Battle of Gainsborough/Gainsborough; Battle of Marston Moor/Marston Moor; Second Battle of Newbury/Newbury II; Battle of Naseby/Naseby; Battle of Langport/Langport; Battle of Preston (1648)/Preston; Battle of Dunbar (1650)/Dunbar; Battle of Worcester/Worcester

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"Oliver Cromwell" (25 April 15993 September 1658)13 September 1658./group=N}} was an English Military history of the United Kingdom/military and Politics of England/political leader and later Lord Protector#Cromwellian Commonwealth/Lord Protector of the The Protectorate/Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an Independent (religion)/independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. An intensely religious man—a self-styled Puritan Moses—he fervently believed that God was guiding his victories.

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What shall we do with this bauble? There, take it away.

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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

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Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole.

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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

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