This is a photo of the 1899 Statue of Cromwell by Hamo Thronycroft outside the Palace of Westminster, London. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War . After the execution of King Charles I in 1649...
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