As one of the generals on the parliamentary side in the English Civil Wars (1642–51) against Charles I, Oliver Cromwell helped overthrow the Stuart monarchy, and, as lord protector(1653–58), he raised England’s status once more to that of a leading European power from the decline it had gone through since the death of Elizabeth I.
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