Презентация на тему The Civil War and Oliver Cromwell

The 17th Century:

social tensions

high unemployment

declining position of the

old aristocracy

tensions between a despotic King and a Parliament

an awful lot of money while his country was

poor and sad.
He hated the Puritans.

convocation of Parliament.

The Civil War

1640 – the convocation of
Parliament.

The Civil War

3 September 1658)

- an English military and political leader.

- a strict Puritan with a Cambridge education.

- served in the Short Parliament (April 1640)
and the Long Parliament (August 1640
through April 1660)

1628 – Member of Parliament for
Huntingdon.


1640 – Member for Cambridge

support of the

Parliament’s Army.

Victories over the Royalists at Marston Moor (1644)
and Naseby (1645)

Cromwell left for Ireland to put down the Irish Civil War.

1653 – He marched into Parliament and dismissed the
members.

Richard was lord protector of England from September 1658

to May1659.

1660 – he fled to Paris.

1680 – returned to England.

Oliver Cromwell
was a great general and

administrator.