Hanging with History

55. Oliver Cromwell, Part 3, Ireland and Scotland


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The English Civil War seems to be over, the king is dead.  We chopped the bloody man’s head off.  But Charles II shows up in Scotland under the thumb of the Covenanters.  It really is a self-perpetuating autocracy.

 The Irish Civil War has been going on since 1641 and it is time to put an end to it.  When you have a big job to do, two big jobs, who do you get to do it?  You guessed it, Oliver Cromwell.


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