Theodore Roosevelt

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I THE TIMES AND THE MAN

II THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE CIVIL WAR

III THE SECOND CIVIL WAR AND THE DEATH OF THE KING

IV THE IRISH AND SCOTCH WARS

V THE COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE

VI PERSONAL RULE

INDEX

Transcriber’s Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

OLIVER CROMWELL.

From the portrait by Robert Walker at Hinchingbrooke.

By permission of the Earl of Sandwich.

(Probably painted soon after the beginning of the Civil War, when Cromwell was forty-three or -four years old.)