A short history of England . ernment. Fairfax and Cromwell were made membersof the council of state and served as a bond between parliamentand army. 1 The events here described cm perhaps he made more clear by dividingthem into the following periods : 1629-1640, Government of Charles I.[640-1643, Reforming Period of the Long , the Civil , the Commonwealth. 1653-1660, the Protectorate. GREAT REBELLION AND COMMONWEALTH 455 408. Conquest of Ireland and Scotland.—The Commonwealthproved to be a vigorous and warlike government. On the exe-cution of the king
A short history of England . ernment. Fairfax and Cromwell were made membersof the council of state and served as a bond between parliamentand army. 1 The events here described cm perhaps he made more clear by dividingthem into the following periods : 1629-1640, Government of Charles I.[640-1643, Reforming Period of the Long , the Civil , the Commonwealth. 1653-1660, the Protectorate. GREAT REBELLION AND COMMONWEALTH 455 408. Conquest of Ireland and Scotland.—The Commonwealthproved to be a vigorous and warlike government. On the exe-cution of the king Ireland declared for Charles 11, and Catholicsand royalist Protestants combined to drive out the representativesof parliament. An army was sent over in August, 1649, an(l In-land was soon more thoroughly conquered than it had ever beenbefore. Cromwell, and after his return to England in 1650, hisson-indaw, Ireton, who succeeded to the command, carried theirtroops through every part of the island, captured cities, battered.
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