Fleetwood, Charles

Fleetwood, Charles

▪ English general
born c. 1618, , Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, Eng.
died Oct. 4, 1692, Stoke Newington, Middlesex

      English Parliamentary general, son-in-law and supporter of Oliver Cromwell.

      He joined the Parliamentary army at the beginning of the Civil War between Parliament and King Charles I and fought in the major Parliamentary victories at Naseby (June 1645), Dunbar (September 1650), and Worcester (September 1651). By 1650 Fleetwood had become lieutenant general of cavalry, but his major military contribution was in planning the organization of the Parliamentary armies. In 1651 he married Cromwell's daughter, Bridget, and from 1652 to 1655 he was commander in chief and lord deputy in Ireland, where he carried out a policy of repression.

      Fleetwood was one of the generals who helped Cromwell govern England from 1655 to 1657, though he opposed the plan to make Cromwell king. After the Lord Protector's death in September 1658, Fleetwood led the group of officers who deposed Cromwell's ineffectual son Richard (May 1659). He had a hand in restoring the Rump Parliament—dissolved in 1653—but when it tried to remove him as commander in chief, he helped dissolve it once again (October 1659). Gen. George Monck then invaded England from Scotland, reinstated Parliament, and replaced Fleetwood as head of the army. When Charles II returned to England in May 1660, Fleetwood was permanently excluded from public office.

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