Fox felt moved to invite Cromwell to " lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus "— which, however, Cromwell declined to do.

Following the battle of Marston Moor, Oliver Cromwell quoted his nephew's dying words in a letter to the boy's father Valentine Walton: " A little after, he said one thing lay upon his spirit.

This led Cromwell to lay siege to the castle, burning and leaving it in ruins.

An attempt at pursuit was made by Waller and Cromwell, with all the cavalry they could lay hands on.

Monck, who had served Cromwell and the English Parliament throughout the civil wars, judged that his best interests and those of his country lay in the Restoration of Charles II.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

And in England, after the Restoration, the body of Cromwell was disinterred and hanged at Tyburn.

* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The Duke of Hamilton led an invasion of England to free the King, but he was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in August 1648 at the Battle of Preston.

" Cromwell at Dunbar ", Andrew Carrick Gow.

Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland in 1650, and defeated the Scottish army in battles at Dunbar and Worcester.

* 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason.

Oliver Cromwell: Soldier: The Military Life of a Revolutionary at War Brassey's, ISBN 1-85753-343-7

* The Oliver Cromwell Project at the University of Cambridge

* Works by or about Oliver Cromwell at Internet Archive ( scanned books original editions color illustrated )

Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth the Solicitor General, Richard Rich, to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the legitimate head of the church.

He was kept in close confinement until his execution at Smithfield, two days after the execution of Thomas Cromwell.

He returned to England in 1539, living briefing in Newbury, but on the execution of Thomas Cromwell ( who had been his friend and protector since 1527 ) in 1540, he was compelled again to go into exile and lived for a time at Tübingen, and, between 1543 and 1547, was a pastor and schoolmaster at Bergzabern ( now Bad Bergzabern ) in the Electorate of the Palatinate, and very poor.

Following Edward's canonisation, these were regarded as holy relics, and thereafter they were used at all English coronations from the 13th century until the destruction of the regalia by Oliver Cromwell in 1649.

Oliver Cromwell, who became the leader of England after the abolition of the monarchy in 1649, refused to adopt universal suffrage ; individuals were required to own property ( real or personal ) worth at least £ 200 in order to vote.

Colonel Thomas Horton defeated the Royalist rebels at the battle of St. Fagans in May and the rebel leaders surrendered to Cromwell on July 11 after the protracted two month siege of Pembroke.

Cromwell defeated Charles at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe.

Charles was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch, in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans.

On 30 August Cromwell delayed the start of the battle to give time for two pontoon bridges to be constructed one over the Severn and the other over the Teme close to their confluence.

Cromwell was originally known as " The Junction ", being at the confluence of the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers.

Fifty kilometres south of Lake Wanaka, the Clutha reaches the town of Cromwell, which was substantially altered when the Clyde Dam project was commissioned in 1992.

The Clutha also provides irrigation for stone fruit orchards around Cromwell, Alexandra, and Roxburgh, which provide apples, apricots, nectarines, | cherries, and peaches.

The Cromwell Gorge is a deep gorge on the Clutha River in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island.

The line's eventual terminus was Cromwell in the Upper Clutha catchment but it did not arrive there until 1921.

On 17 August 1648, Langdale's force was guarding the road into Preston while the main body of the army crossed the River Ribble, when Cromwell launched an unexpected attack, initiating the three-day running Battle of Preston ( 1648 ).

The Middletown, Meriden and Waterbury Railroad was the final name of the line from Waterbury, Connecticut east to Cromwell, on the Connecticut River north of Middletown.

The river then flows southeast through the inundated Cromwell Gorge to Clyde, and nearby Alexandra, where it is joined by the waters of the Manuherikia River.

The first major gold deposits in Otago were discovered around the Tuapeka River at Gabriel's Gully by Gabriel Read in 1861, and the following year large amounts of the precious metal were discovered close to the site of modern Cromwell.

The first Fort George was built in 1727 in Inverness, a large fortress capable of housing 400 troops on a hill beside the River Ness, on the site of ( and incorporating portions of ) the medieval castle which had been rebuilt as a citadel by Oliver Cromwell then abandoned.

Mount Cromwell is a mountain located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada.

A second major discovery in 1862, close to the modern town of Cromwell, did nothing to dissuade new hopefuls, and prospectors and miners staked claims from the Shotover River in the west through to Naseby in the north.

Cromwell, Balfour and Sir Arthur Hesilrige eventually were allowed to take cavalry in pursuit of the King's army, but soon found that the Royalists had already crossed the River Thames at Wallingford and had reached the safety of the neighbourhood of Oxford.

* Bannockburn, is located on the southern banks of the Kawarau River near Cromwell and is a very warm area that was known by gold miners as “ the Heart of the Desert ”.

* The Cromwell Basin contains the highest concentration of vines in an area bounded by the Kawarau River, Lake Dunstan and the Pisa mountain range.

* TPC at River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut

The New York and New England Railroad leased it in 1892, as a branch from the main line in Waterbury east to Cromwell on the Connecticut River.

The Mattabesset River as delineated on present-day maps flows out of Harts Ponds in the town of Berlin and travels east to the Connecticut River, passing Kensington and later forming the boundary between Middletown and Cromwell.

* Mattabesett Trail District serves the following communities: Berlin, Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Higganum, Kensington, Killingworth, Middlefield, Middletown, Moodus, New Britain, Old Saybrook, Portland and Westbrook