Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
Subject to Change
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The Great Revolt of the 17th Century
Oliver Cromwell passed over his oldest son in favor of a second. Richard was not up to the job but he's removed by is it by the army and so we move away from the protectorate, back to some sort of a pure republic. At that stage the generals revolt I got a bit confused towards the end well it's a very complicated picture in that last 18 months of the periodso overcome our dies in the autumn of 1658 on his deathbed.
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