Was Oliver Cromwell good or bad as a leader before and after the winning of the Civil War?

Answer 1

He was a bad leader.He made little children be slaves and he killed many people for the wrong reasons. He also had an evil glare he tended to do when he was looking at everyone!! But only in the movie (Hollywood)...I don't know for real life!!! :D

Answer 2

That depends entirely on your point of view. Cromwell was a very good General, but if you are Irish I would expect a hostile response to that. Drogheda & Wexford were massacres of the most unpleasant kind based on religeous reasons. And also the idea of killing the King is not the Royalist supporters kind of leader. Cromwell therefore appeals to Protgestant Republican autocratic leadership type of opinion. You might have guessed that's not where I am coming from. I'm not suggesting King Charles the First was a better national leader, he clearly wasn't. And I am suggesting militarily that Cromwell was a great commander. He doesn't appeal to me. I dislike hinm & what he stands for, because he represents religeous intolerance; His God is the only God that matters and any other religeous belief is therefore heretic. Therefore, a personal opinion, Cromwell is bad, and that's Bad with a capital B.

Though, He was good to others. He may have been bad to Ireland, but to England (And maybe Scotland) he was amazing. It is all down to opinion!

Answer 3

Cromwell over all was a good leader; his intentions were right, and in the end he was successful - it was the methods he used that was not right. He had a brutal mind for winning, but his heart was always hoped for the better of England. Nothing he did was for his own benefit. Hope this helps :)
That depends entirely on your point of view. Cromwell was a very good General, but if you are Irish I would expect a hostile response to that. Drogheda & Wexford were massacres of the most unpleasant kind based on religeous reasons. And also the idea of killing the King is not the Royalist supporters kind of leader. Cromwell therefore appeals to Protgestant Republican autocratic leadership type of opinion. You might have guessed that's not where I am coming from. I'm not suggesting King Charles the First was a better national leader, he clearly wasn't. And I am suggesting militarily that Cromwell was a great commander. He doesn't appeal to me. I dislike hinm & what he stands for, because he represents religeous intolerance; His God is the only God that matters and any other religeous belief is therefore heretic. Therefore, a personal opinion, Cromwell is bad, and that's Bad with a capital B.

Though, He was good to others. He may have been bad to Ireland, but to England (And maybe Scotland) he was amazing. It is all down to opinion!
oliver cromwell was protrayed as a strong leader not just for the common people but for england.
oliver cromwell was a harsh ruler as many people thought. for example he once nailed a baby to church alive as the baby didnt have the same religion as oliver cromwell. he killed many people.
First Cromwell wasnt a king but he was the Lord Protector. Many people find him in different ways. Here is a list i made of his good actions and bad actions.

Some good things:

1. He set up the New Model Army which won the Civil War..

2. He defeated the Scots and the Irish.

3. He got people to behead the king, and made Parliament the ruler of the kingdom. 4. He abolished bear-baiting and punished drunkenness.

5. He allowed Jews to return to start living in England.

6. He built up the British navy.

7. He captured Jamaica from the Spanish - the beginning of the British Empire.

8. He was a good, decent family man, who enjoyed a joke and was kind to his children.

Some bad things:

1. He signed the order that put Charles I to death (and some daft people think this was a bad thing

2. He took power straight after the Civil War. He made himself 'Lord Protector' and used army officers called 'Major Generals' to rule the country (i.e. he turned Britain for a time into a military Dictatorship)

3. He introduced laws to make people behave in a Christian way - some people say he was a 'killjoy'.

4. He put down a rebellion in Ireland very cruelly (especially he allowed his soldiers to massacre the Irish soldiers when he captured the towns of Drogheda and Wexford).
i think the stuff that he did were good. i also think he was a good king :) by bethan dadson 13 years i think this is just my opion not everythink oliver cromwell did was god but some were

Oliver Cromwell was not a king.

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Cromwell started out as a farmer and after inheriting some money and converting to an extreme version of Puritanism he was elected as an MP. He was a powerful voice against the King during the short Parliament and a very good general for the "Roundhead" new model army during the civil war.

He was however responsible for the purging of Parliament, involved in the execution of the King became the "Lord Protector" of Britain and lead campaigns in Scotland and Ireland that, especially in Ireland, mean he is despised to this day.

Good things - he stood up against the "Absolute and Divine Rule of Kings" and helped to set the precedent that Parliament is the final authority in Britain, and he modernised and professionalised the British Army for the first time.

Bad things - He then ignored parliament himself and ruled as a fundamentalist dictator, launched near genocidal campaigns against the catholic Irish and placed most of Scotland under military rule.

Opinions of Cromwell vary and there is a statue of him outside Westminster still, to some he is a champion of democracy to others a murderous dictator!
Here is a list of the bad things Oliver Cromwell did:- - In September 1649, Cromwell's 12,000-strong forces stormed Drogheda, north of Dublin. His troops massacred nearly everyone in the garrison and the town - women and children alike. Cromwell justified this as the "righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches". - A month later Wexford suffered the same fate and both incidents, justified by the British as militarily necessary to subdue the population, still figure strongly in Irish republican history. - He was heavily involved in the first execution of a monarch - the execution of Charles I. - He abolished Parliament, when during the Civil War he claimed to be protecting them. - He imprisoned the leaders of the Levellers, and refused to let him go, even when presented with a petition with over 10,000 signatures on it.

Answer 4

Cromwell was not a bad man as such, he was a very good leader of men, a good military commander. He was a good speaker. The problem I have with him is the subject matter of what he had to say. Although I do not think that Charles I was a good king, manifestly he was not Britain was better off with a monarchy than without.