54.3 Death of Oliver Cromwell and the Restoration
A History of Europe Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 27 November 2020
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The death of Oliver Cromwell in September 1658 left the republican government in disarray. The mood of the country favoured the return of monarchy, and so King Charles II was invited to the restored English throne in May 1660. Soon after conflict with the Dutch Republic renewed with the Second Anglo Dutch War
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| 0:40.3 | The Hello, this is a history of Europe, Ki-Battles, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, part three of four. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. The Anglo-Dutch Wars, part three of four. Last week I described the first Anglo-Dutch war from 1652 to 1654, when the English achieved their main objective of rebalancing the North Sea shipping trade in their favour. |
| 1:40.9 | Commercial tensions between the two nations were not really resolved, so although peace returned for a while, |
| 1:46.0 | the English and Dutch would go to war twice again in the 17th century. |
| 1:51.0 | The political context for each war, especially in England, was different each time. |
| 1:57.0 | In England, Oliver Cromwell became effectively a military dictator. |
| 2:05.7 | After dismissing the Rump Parliament, in 1653 he tried various constitutional experiments. |
| 2:13.5 | Later that year, a new assembly was convened, which became known as the Bare Bones Parliament, |
| 2:19.4 | but was too radical for Cromwell's liking, and lasted only a few months. |
| 2:24.9 | Cromwell then had himself declared as Lord Protector, |
| 2:28.1 | assisted by a Council of State and a Parliament which would be elected every three years. |
| 2:34.4 | Under the Protectorate, Parliament proved again less submissive than Cromwell hoped. |
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