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Definition of Oliver Cromwell

1. Noun. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658).

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Literary usage of Oliver Cromwell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Oliver Cromwell. By the Right Hon. John Morley, MP London: Macmillan, 1900. 2. ... Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the Puritans in England. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He wrote the 'Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and his Sons, ... He was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and by the deaths of his two older ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"Oliver Cromwell AND SIR Oliver Cromwell. Sir Oliver.—How many saints and Sions dost carry under thy cloak, lad ? ..."

4. A.L.A. Portrait Index: Index to Portraits Contained in Printed Books and by American Library Association (1906)
"77. miniature* (coll. of Charles Butler) GARDINER, Oliver Cromwell (1899) 160. ... MORLEY, Oliver Cromwell (1900) 12. Walker p.* (coll. of earl of Sandwich, ..."

5. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1907)
"THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE PROTECTORATE. CHAP. Oliver Cromwell, who by the instrument of government ..."

6. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1895)
"9*.' For the doubts felt at this time about the security of the Schools fabric, cp. vol. ip 251,1. 23. Vol. I, p. 166, i January 165}, Oliver Cromwell was ..."

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