interferes in Continental affairs, 225 _et seq._;
revenges Vaudois massacres, 227, 228;
contests Spain on the sea, 228;
his court, 229;
last illness, 230, 231;
death, 232;
desecration of his remains by Restorationists, 233;
compared with William III., 235;
political ideals, 236 _et seq._;
cruelty of his Irish policy, 237;
posthumous reputation, 239
Cromwell, Richard, son of Oliver, as Protector, 232
Cromwell, Robert, father of Oliver, 42; his death, 43
“Crummle, the curse o’,” 225.
_See Cromwell, Oliver, and Ireland_
Cuirassiers, use in Parliamentary army, 60;
at Winceby, 83;
the Scotch at Marston Moor, 88
Czars, the, 9
Danes, the, Charles X.’s war against, 226
Dean, Colonel, at Preston, 126;
in Dutch War, 183;
his rule in Scotland, 221
Death penalty, a cause of sentimentalism, 137, 138;
its justice on tyrants, 234, 235
Declaration, Cromwell’s, in Ireland, 159, 161
Democracy, Cromwell’s bearing toward, 211
Derry, siege of, 150;
supports Parliamentarians, 152
De Ruyter, 182
Despotism, under republics, 22;
under the Stuarts, 28;
under Cromwell, 213;
a subject of doctrinaire notions, 236
Discipline, a military necessity, 91;
a source of soldiers’ ties, 107;
rigidly enforced by Cromwell, 152
Dissenters, persecuted under Elizabeth, 23;
aimed at by Third Parliament, 31;
position under the Protectorate, 200
Dragoons, 60, 79;
Royalists at Winceby, 83
Drake, 14, 18
Dreyfus case, the, 22
Drilling, excellence of Cromwell’s troops at Winceby, 83
Drogheda, siege of, 41, 48, 150;
Parliamentarian atrocities there, 153 _et seq._, 160
Dublin, Puritan rule there, 146, 147;
surrendered to Parliamentarians, 149;
Supreme Council of, 150;
siege of, 151;
Cromwell’s troops there, 152
Duke, Basil, 70
Dunbar, Leslie engages the English there, 169 _et seq._, 172, 173;
fate of Scotch prisoners captured there, 174;
anniversary of, 198, 231
Dundalk, surrender of, 150;
garrisoned by Cromwell, 157
Dunkirk, ceded to English, 229, 230
Dutch, the, their sailors in wars with Spain, 14;
oppressions under Spain, 36;
Parliamentarian war with, 181 _et seq._;
commercial supremacy, 184;
religious toleration, 200;
peace with England, 201;
war with Charles X., 226
Eastern Association, the, 63;
the Ironsides in, 81;
committee of, 85;
its infantry at Marston Moor, 86–89;
its training, 91;
the pattern for the New Model, 93.
_See also Associations_
Edgehill, battle of, 71–73;
Charles I.’s standard-bearer there, 154
Edinburgh, Laud’s attempt to introduce the Prayer-Book there, 39;
Cromwell’s reception there, 131;
besieged by Cromwell, 167;
surrendered to Cromwell, 174
Edinburgh, Governor of, 172
Eglinton, Earl of, at Marston Moor, 88
Eliot, Sir John, character of, 27;
his leadership in Parliament, 30, 31;
his imprisonment, 32;
death, 33;
Charles I.’s vengeance on, 137
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