Definitionn. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War
Last update: October 7, 2015
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Cromwell furnished 6000 men with a fleet to join in the attack upon Spain in Flanders, and obtained as reward Mardyke and Dunkirk, the former being captured and handed over on the 3rd of October 1657, and the latter after the battle of the Dunes on the 4th of June 1658, when Cromwell's Ironsides were once more pitted against English royalists fighting for the Spaniards. [Please select]
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"--Cromwell at once set about to effect the entire remodelling of the army on the plan of his favorite Ironsides." [Please select]
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With his Ironsides he made quick and terrible work of the conquest of the island. [Please select]
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THE "IRONSIDES" AND THE "NEW MODEL" At the outset of the war fortune favored the royalists, until Cromwell took the field. [Please select]
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These "Ironsides," as Cromwell said, "had the fear of God before them and made some conscience of what they did." [Please select]
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Explain: "Rump Parliament"; "Pride's Purge"; the "New Model"; the "Ironsides"; "Cavalier"; and "Roundhead." [Please select]
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OLD IRONSIDES OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down. [Please select]
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--Barnes's _Yankee Ships; _Roosevelt's _Naval War of 1812; _Seawell's _Midshipman Paulding; _Holmes's _Old Ironsides; _Goodwin's _Dolly Madison. [Please select]
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Throughout the Anglo-Saxon world the slumbering spirit of Cromwell's Ironsides has sprung to life, reminding the British Empire and the United States of their common ancestry. [Please select]
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From Lowell--"The Finding of the Lyre," "The Shepherd of King Admetus," and a fragment of "The Vision of Sir Launfal," From Holmes--"The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides." [Please select]
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