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"My design is to make what haste I can to be gone."
~ Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658)
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life.
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