Oliver Cromwell: Lord Protector (2)

The civil war, between the army raised by Parliament, and the forces loyal to the king of England, can be divided into four separate phases. The first phase involved skirmishes chiefly around the area of Cromwell's home. When Parliament decided, partly at Cromwell's urging, that the time had come to raise an army under its direction to oppose Royalist forces, Cromwell immediately proceeded to do so by forming a troop of 60 men from his own home area to fight the king's armies. It was this...