What the FUCK was his problem?

>>2659879
Irish

Dissatisfaction.

Catholics.

Britain

>>2659879
He was a puritan
Need I say More

The republic was a mistake.

>>2659879
The Jews

Cromwell looks like a washed up old country singer

He was a good lad. Way before his time. A hundred or so years into the future and he'd be seen as the Briton Napoleon

>>2660153
Because he asked the painter to exaggerate his warts
>>2660158
>this a new idea
It's long been held that if Napoleon died then France would become a constitutional monarchy, hell XVI had already set it on the tracks to be

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>>2660165
>he asked the painter to exaggerate his warts

>>2660158
Being this retarded.

not enough boglings to bash

His problem was being a hypocrite

>hurr fuck monarchs, men free to govern themselves
>hurr but my family is the new royalty, better listen to my son.

If Cromwell hadn't been so in love with himself and established a strong successor state British history could have gone very differently

>>2660570

We wouldn't have had the victorian era, I'm not sure the trade off is worth it

>>2660165
>>2660176
Not really, he just told him to paint him realistically instead of painting an idealized picture as it was common. Because vanity is a sin and also you shouldn't alter the form God made him in or something like that.

>>2660570
I don't think he was really planning on having his son succeed him, he died fairly unexpectedly

>>2660176
Because he was a puritan, and was barely convinced to even have a painting of him done

>>2660570
>hypocrite
Not really, he just wanted to find the best form of government for the People
>>2660917
He was like 60 when he died, of course he was expected to die.
His son was clearly destined to inherit as the generals were taught to listen to him

>>2661909
but it was a sickness that iirc wiped him out pretty quickly, he hadnt really groomed anyone for succession

>>2661932
His son wasn't fully groomed but Cromwell thought the advisors would pass on and be safe