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On 23 April he was served heir male of his brother's grandson. Being a devoted loyalist he garrisoned Kilsyth Castle against Oliver Cromwell, for which and for other services he received from Charles II a letter of thanks dated 7 October 1650. He was excepted from Cromwell's Act of Grace in 1654, and fined £1,500.
The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, initially led by Oliver Cromwell.It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, and wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
In May 1659, seven months after Oliver Cromwell's death, the Army removed Richard and re-installed the Rump; [97] military force shortly dissolved this as well. [98] General George Monck, by then commander-in-chief of the English forces in Scotland, [ 99 ] marched south with his army, crossing the Tweed on 2 January 1660 and entering London on ...
The Cromwell tank was a British medium-weight tank first used in 1944, [179] and a steam locomotive built by British Railways in 1951 was named Oliver Cromwell. [180] Other public statues of Cromwell are the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, St Ives in Cambridgeshire [181] and the Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Warrington in Cheshire. [182]
Cromwell finally engaged the new king at Worcester on 3 September 1651, and beat him – in the process all but wiping out his army, killing 3,000 and taking 10,000 prisoners. Many of the Scottish prisoners taken by Cromwell were sold into indentured labour in the West Indies, Virginia and Berwick, Maine. This defeat marked the real end of the ...
The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family. Aristocratic members of the family descend from Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, and Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of Thomas Cromwell's sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams. Peerages and ...
Cromwell gives figures in his contemporaneous correspondence for the strength of the Scottish army based on all of its units being at full strength [57] and claims to have "killed near four thousand" and captured 10,000 Scots. In Cromwell's letters he states that the day after the battle he released between 4,000 and 5,000 of the prisoners.
With the capture of Perth by Cromwell this body, dominated by militant Covenanters, endeavoured to assemble a fresh army in Angus. On 28 August a regiment of English cavalry commanded by Colonel Matthew Alured surprised 5,000 Scots at Alyth , 15 miles (24 km) north of Dundee, scattered them and took prisoner all of the members of the Committee ...