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John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684 (Hardcover, New)
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John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684 (Hardcover, New)
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A biography of one of the most prominent soldiers in the New Model
Army, who made Cromwell Lord Protector but stopped him becoming
king. John Lambert's life and career have long deserved this
revealing study. The man who made Cromwell Lord Protector in 1653
also stopped him becoming king in 1657; and Lambert was the
originator of the Instrument of Government, on which Cromwell's
Protectorate was based. Committed to his deeply held, radical
beliefs, Lambert first rose to prominence as a dashing cavalry
commander in the civil wars of 1642 - 51, and he was a prominent
upholder of the power ofthe New Model Army, particularly in his
creation of the Major Generals, who ruled England in 1655.
Lambert's refusal to countenance Cromwell as king saw his temporary
fall from power, but he emerged after the Protector's death asa
possible successor. His radical ideas seemed to threaten even 'his
own side', and led to his imprisonment in the Tower in 1660, but he
escaped and staged a last desperate republican stand against the
return of Charles II. Although Lambert was subsequently convicted
of treason, Charles did not have him executed - sure recognition
that his character, private actions and beliefs were those of a man
who was much more than a military revolutionary. DAVID FARR is head
of history at Norwich School.
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