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[pennon]

admiral oliver cromwells navy

[DottyH]

Maybe so but there was nothing admiral about him, he slaughtered innocent people and sent many to lives of slavery In the west indies.

[jake-the-peg]

...and a few Kings who rightly deserved it too!

You wouldn't happen to be Irish yould you Dotty?

Anyway perhaps pennon wants William Batten

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Batten

Or Robert Blake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blake_(adm iral)

[DottyH]

yes jake i knew who he wanted but without a question it was easy to digress and no i am not irish but i know a man who is.

[jake-the-peg]

:c) I married a woman who is!

Oliver Cromwell is an interesting character, like Napoleon he provokes strong views on many sides and after 350 years you can still get into a fist fight over him.

I think it is important to remember that unlike Napoleon he is a "pre-enlightenment" figure and it's all too easy to judge him on the standards of our own time.

It's also important not to automatically believe what's written about the Irish campaign. In a sense we view him through the eyes of a restored monarchy. Had he taken the crown and started a new dynasty of kings our view of him would probably be very different.

Certainly people like Henry VII had no real claim to the throne and yet we see the Tudors as almost a golden age.

It's a contraversial opinion I know and not one that'd be popularin Ireland where he's still the "bogeyman"

[Grunty]

I don't understand why pennon calls Cromwell an admiral or why DottyH seems to have mistaken the word for admirable.

There is much on the internet about the Navy during the Interregnum. A starting point would be the Wikipedia section on Admiral Blake:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blake_(adm iral)

[Stu in USA]

But what is the question?