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| | Readers' Newsletter No. 12 |
 | | However, through the terrible upheavals of civil war and regicide, he rose to be, first, commander of the army, and then ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland, enjoying the powers, if not the title, of a king. |
 | | At his death in 1658, Cromwell the Lord Protector was buried in state at Westminster Abbey, but less than three years later his corpse was disinterred and hanged in its shroud at Tyburn. |
 | | From that day to this Oliver Cromwell has been arguably the most controversial figure in British history, for while some regard him as the defender of liberty and toleration, the champion of the underdog, others see him as nothing more than a tyrant, a murderer, and a bigot. |
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