Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament
1653 · Event
Out of patience with the remnant of the Long Parliament, Cromwell marches musketeers into the Commons and clears the chamber himself — 'you have sat too long here for any good you have been doing... in the name of God, go!' England's republic is now whatever the army says it is.
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