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Summary
Important Terms, People, and Events
Cromwell's Youth
A Farmer and Backbench Reformer
The Rise from Obscurity
Lieutenant-General Cromwell
Trying and Executing a King
Crusading in Ireland and Scotland
Ruling England
Lord Protector
Frustrations of Rulership
Refusing a Crown
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