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Born 1611 • England
Died November 28, 1651 (aged 40) • Limerick • Ireland
Political Affiliation Roundhead
Role In English Civil Wars • First English Civil War

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Oliver Cromwell
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Ludlow; portrait by an unknown artist
Edmund Ludlow
English soldier and politician
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Earl of Totnes, detail of an oil painting after a portrait, c. 1615–20; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Carew, earl of Totnes
English administrator
Ulick Burke, marquess and 5th earl of Clanricard
Irish noble
Charles I
Charles I
king of Great Britain and Ireland
James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormonde
Irish noble
John Lambert
John Lambert
English general
George Monck, detail of an oil painting after S. Cooper, c. 1660; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Monck, 1st duke of Albemarle
British general
Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester
British general
Charles II, 19th-century engraving by William Holl.
Charles II
king of Great Britain and Ireland
Godfrey Kneller: painting of James II
James II
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
G. Glover, after Edward Bower: John Pym
John Pym
English statesman
Sir Thomas Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax
English general
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex
English noble
Sir Henry Sidney, painting by an unknown artist, 1573; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Henry Sidney
British statesman [1529-1586]
Sir William Waller
English commander
Mountjoy, detail of an engraving by Valentine Green after a portrait by Paul van Somer
Charles Blount, 8th Lord Mountjoy
English lord deputy of Ireland
Charles Fleetwood
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