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Oliver Cromwell

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Theodore Roosevelt
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The book offers a compact political and military biography that situates its subject within the era's upheavals. It follows his emergence from local prominence to national leadership during parliamentary struggles, recounts his campaigns and decisive battles, his role in the king's trial and execution, and the subsequent Irish and Scottish campaigns. It analyzes the transition from commonwealth to protectorate, examines administrative reforms and the exercise of personal authority, and sketches family and succession issues that followed his death. Throughout, the author interweaves portraiture, contemporary documents, and assessments of character, ideology, and legacy.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Oliver Cromwell Frontispiece
(From the portrait by Robert Walker at Hinchingbrooke.)
 
FACING PAGE
 
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 8
(From the miniature at Devonshire House.)
 
Oliver Cromwell 12
(From a miniature by Cooper.)
 
Sir John Eliot 16
(From the portrait by Van Somer at Port Eliot.)
 
All Saints’ Church, Huntingdon 24
 
Cromwell’s House at Ely 28
 
Archbishop Laud 34
(From the portrait at Lambeth Palace, painted by Vandyke.)
 
West Tower, Ely Cathedral, from Monastery Close 40
 
John Pym 52
(From the portrait by Cornelius Janssen.)
 
Prince Rupert 68
(From the portrait by Vandyke at Hinchingbrooke.)
 
Fac-simile of Letter from Oliver Cromwell to Mr. Storie, written January 11, 1635, said to be the earliest extant letter in Cromwell’s Handwriting 74
(From the original in the British Museum.)
 
John Hampden 80
(From the portrait by Robert Walker at Port Eliot.)
 
Cromwell’s Engagement with the Marquis of Newcastle’s Regiment of “Whitecoats” in the Battle of Marston Moor 88
 
The City Walls of York, with the Cathedral in the Distance 96
 
King Charles I. 108
(From the replica at the Dresden Gallery, by Sir Peter Lely.)
 
General Sir Thomas Fairfax 116
(From the portrait by Robert Walker at Althorp.)
 
John Milton 120
(From the drawing in crayon by Faithorne at Bayfordbury.)
 
The Death Warrant of King Charles I.—Signed by Oliver Cromwell and other members of the court 128
(From the original in the library in the House of Lords.)
 
Pride’s Purge 136
 
Interior of Westminster Hall. Where Parliament sat and where King Charles I. was tried and sentenced 140
 
Magdalen Tower, Drogheda 154
 
St. Lawrence’s Gate, Drogheda 158
 
Cromwell Leading the Assault on Drogheda 164
 
The Battle-field of Dunbar 172
 
Seal of the Protectorate 178
(From an impression in wax in the British Museum.)
 
Admiral Robert Blake 184
(From the portrait at Wadham College, Oxford.)
 
Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament 186
 
Oliver Cromwell 190
(From the painting at Althorp by Robert Walker.)
 
The Clock Tower, Hampton Court 200
 
The Great Hall, Hampton Court—In this room the state dinners were given under the Protectorate 206
 
The Second Installation of Cromwell as Protector, in Westminster Hall, June 26, 1657 210
 
Sir William Waller 216
(From the portrait by Sir Peter Lely at Goodwood.)
 
Henry Cromwell—Son of the Protector, and Governor of Ireland 220
 
The Last Charge of the Ironsides 226
 
Richard Cromwell 232
 
Exterior of Westminster Hall 236
 
Oliver Cromwell 240
(From the bust by Bernini.)