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What allowed Cromwell led as a military dictator instead of a
commonwealth?

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Charles I may have reconvened Parliament, but his commonwealth remained a fragile state. In 1642, an armed conflict began between troops loyal to Parliament — the New Model Army — against those allied with the
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