![]() And a few years later, he died, and the nation, not finding any sufficiently great man to take his place, called back the King, and restored him, and lit bonfires. He tried various types of councils and parliaments and found them to be as trying as ever King Charles did. So the Army turned Parliament out into the street, and a single man, the Army’s great general, Cromwell, became Lord Protector, a thing that had never been in England. But they found that they could not figure how to prevent Parliament itself becoming as great a tyrannical power as the King had been, especially since Parliament refused to call any new elections. And kings were abolished, and England was a republic. ![]() And the people finding him to be a pestilential recalcitrant rogue and a man of blood, cut off his head, with the Crown upon it, and were horrified at their own actions. What happened in the mere space of twenty years was a King who went to war with his own people, twice, and who was defeated, twice. ![]()
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