Oliver Cromwell: The Man Who Killed a King
He’s the man who killed a king. Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I’s bloody execution in 1649. Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this smalltime farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all. NOTE: This is a re-issue, we had an error on the original video that required we do a re-upload. Apologies to everyone who saw this go live last week, but didn t get to watch it yet. →Subscribe for new videos every Monday and Thursday! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M Producer - Jack Cole Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Napoleon Bonaparte: The Strategic Genius https://youtu.be/7wXauVk7DXs?list=PLy3kHTZWA8OjhReWy8qPHMXDtTr-Ezp84 Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror https://youtu.be/KqfcpNrcGb0?list=PLy3kHTZWA8OjhReWy8qPHMXDtTr-Ezp84 Source/Further reading: http://bcw-project.org/biography/oliver-cromwell (whole series): http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2013/09/001-the-kingdoms-of-charles-stuart.html http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/survey/parliament-1628-1629 https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Oliver-Cromwell/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Cromwell http://bcw-project.org/military/third-civil-war/ https://www.historytoday.com/charles-ogilvie/cromwell-and-execution-charles-i http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/the-protectorate/first-protectorate-parliament http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/the-protectorate/second-protectorate-parliament
