And with Lambert's consent wrote the instrument of Government Under which Oliver was Protector at last,. The End! That's how I remember him best. As to how I view him… he made some people happy, some other people unhappy and a lot of people died. But he did begin the course of our democracy as it stands now. read more
Very negatively. His activities in Britain probably wouldn’t be widely known to Irish folks who don’t have a decent knowledge of history, but his activities in Ireland (at least in broad strokes) are still pretty notorious in the popular narrative. read more
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland; Part of the Eleven Years' War and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Oliver Cromwell, who landed in Ireland in 1649 to re-conquer the country on behalf of the English Parliament. He left in 1650, having taken eastern and southern Ireland, passing his command to Henry Ireton. read more
Most historians agree that at the siege of Drogheda in September 1649, Cromwell’s troops killed nearly 3,500 people after the town’s capture – comprising around 2,700 Royalist soldiers and all the men in the town reportedly carrying arms, including some civilians, prisoners and Catholic priests. read more