The Rule of the Major Generals

Penrodock's uprising, as i said, spun cromwell off on a much harder policy towards perceived enemies of the state. So in august 16 55, he started working up a plan to coordinate local militias with the regular army to strengthen the web of security. This led him to divide england up into ten, later 11, military districts, each of which was to be administered directly by one of cromwell's major generals. Their orders were to disarm royalists and catholics and then force them to produce a five thousand on bond to guarantee good behavior.