Did Cromwell become a bigger Dictator than King Charles I ?

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Koncorde — 19 years ago(April 12, 2006 01:35 PM)

Charles was not offered 'absolute' monarchy. He was invited back because the alternative was to 'elect' a prime minister with no head of state or figurehead. Charles return lent legitimacy to Parliament, nothing more.
With regards to the first post and taxes - taxes are not the mode of a tyrant. His taxes paid for university's, schools, roads, the navy, the army etc and set Britain up as a European power (having previously under James, Charles etc practically 'lost' all bargaining power).
In addition the 'origin' of troubles in Ulster pre-date Cromwell by quite a margin.

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ROBERT-826 — 20 years ago(March 27, 2006 05:37 PM)

your war didnt do much to help the blacks though the north was just as bad as the south,even today bush shows us how black people are still second class !.

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garywolfboy — 19 years ago(April 12, 2006 05:23 AM)

He chased away the Irish, never a bad thing in Britain.

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gypsyjoe — 19 years ago(April 12, 2006 05:35 AM)

Not in England he doesn't.

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Koncorde — 19 years ago(August 26, 2006 02:13 PM)

Actually the reason there were so many Irish navvies around is the fact they were cheap labour.

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garywolfboy — 19 years ago(October 18, 2006 12:10 PM)

they have been the ruin of britain in the last couple of centuries

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Alex_H_86 — 19 years ago(December 17, 2006 05:58 AM)

Any English ruler that goes after Ireland, France and Scotland is all right in my book, thanks to Cromwell, the great and glorious legacy of the prodistant church lives on in all it's glory.

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youngian67 — 19 years ago(March 11, 2007 08:54 AM)

Ironically he embroiled the country in a war with Holland our closest protestant neighbour.

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Errington_92 — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 07:09 AM)

Ironically he embroiled the country in a war with Holland our closest Protestant neighbor.
It was not for religious reasons, rather for supremacy of the seas. This was for trading purposes, leading to the Commonwealth spreading their colonial influence in the Caribbean.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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padfootreincarnated — 18 years ago(November 01, 2007 02:08 PM)

Hey, Aussie, for someone apparently so enamoured of England, you sure can't spell. It's PROTESTANT. Like protest. Anyway. Waht do you have against those countries, anyway?