The Murder of Charles I
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Puritan Revolution - A Book Review
The idea of God and the gun, that is pure new model army and that is in the DNA of America. I think one of the things I took away from writing the book most strongly was the sense to which the Puritan Revolution failed in England. But these seeds as they were blew across the Atlantic and sprouted in this other land. So rather than be a historic dead end, which we sometimes think of English republican as a being, in fact the future belongs to Cromwell via America. They won.
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