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You bolt awake. The year is 1656. You summon a servant, sure of what must be done. You are Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. And William Penn must die.

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    1820 days ago

    Imagine how much better the world would have been if Cromwell wasn’t such a murderous religious zealot and just loved killing kings.

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      1620 days ago

      If he hadn’t banned Christmas, genocided the Irish and trained a worthy successor Britain would quite easily remained a republic with, for the time, pretty progressive governance