Oliver Cromwell

moonlight sobbing without stopping. It is said that when she was alive she would wait in the garden for her son and husband to return from the wars. The castle is supposed to be haunted by another ghost. It is said a soldier that served in the Oliver Cromwell rebellion will sometimes knock on the door. It is said he dressed in the enemy’s uniform to spy on them and was shot by his fellow soldiers. The Dublin Castle is now more of a palace than a medieval fortress. In the early 13th…

They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning…

During the time period of 1642 to 1651, the clashing of religious and the political standpoints of authoritative powers contributed to the English civil war. When the two were integrated, distrust, hesitance, and suspicion diffused throughout a divided society, paving a disastrous and catastrophic future that would be the English civil war. This war was driven by long term and short term causes including the ruling of father and son, James I and Charles I, and the opposition between Puritans and…

Charles II: The Merry Monarch How Far Do the Events in his Reign Reflect This Nickname? Charles II’s title of the ‘Merry Monarch’ proves controversial among many historians in regards to its accuracy. One of Charles’s recent academic biographers, Ronald Hutton, has admitted that he ended up disliking Charles intensely and found the whole process of working on such a man ‘genuinely depressing’. This essay will attempt to prove that he was ‘Merry’-in other words; ‘interested in only self and…

As a crucial center of trade among the major cities of the world, Venice came to be known as a land of indulgence and debauchery. Trading with considerable frequency is one reason that the Venetians gained such a unique reputation. For example, gambling was a natural and frequent occurrence in Venice and the city contained an estimated amount of 20,000 courtesans during the Elizabethan era. Despite the constant promiscuous actions, a large portion of the Venetians were religious, Roman Catholic…

John Adams John Adams was born in 1735 and died at the age of 90. He was married to Abigail Smith and their son, Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States of America. He was a graduate of Harvard College and a prominent attorney in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the second president of the United States of America. Before becoming president, he had served as Vice-President under George Washington. John Adams was influential in stirring up the revolt against Britain rule in…

was elected as the 26th President of the United States in 1901 and served until 1909. Roosevelt had a passion for reading and writing. Over the course of his lifetime, Roosevelt authored 38 books, which included an autobiography, a biography of Oliver Cromwell, a history of New York City and the four-volume series “The Winning of the West.” He also wrote numerous books and magazine articles about hunting and his frontier feats. His famed exploits at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War…

once again, creating the “Court of Star Chamber” spying on commoners like me and making all decisions. Because of this we enter into a new civil war, which we are led by Oliver Cromwell. We win this war and Cromwell comes to power, at first things are good we learn new things about many different issues. However as time passes Cromwell becomes more strict and tries to tell commoners how to live their…

In “Why hasn’t the Guantanamo Bay prison closed?” PBS Anchor Megan Thompson has a conversation with two correspondents which focuses on the political turmoil that has prevented the Guantanamo Bay prison from closing. The highlights of the conversation are about how the Republican controlled Congress likes the message the prison sends to the world, but the Democratic controlled White House wants to close the prison. In “Closing Guantanamo?” by Jonathan Masters, he discusses two possibilities…

during the Protestant Reformation and made their way to the Americas. One of their beliefs was that they needed to purify themselves of all the old Roman Catholic traditions. From the Puritans, another sect split from them, the Separatists led by Oliver Cromwell. This group made up the extreme Puritans. One of the fundamental…