“The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.” HistoryNeededEnglandIronyThronesSuccessorsBritish HistoryCromwellCharles I Author:Simon Schama
“Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.” MayHas BeensTwoDifferentWarAmericaLostResultsLibertyHistoryHappenedTaxesRoundsBritishDisasterRevolutionaryCivil WarEmpiresTaxationHeirsBritish EmpireBritish HistoryMotherlandCromwell Author:Simon Schama
