Season 8 · Episode 67
423 Designs and Major Generals
A crisis of confidence, and Leviathan awakes
The History of England · David Crowther
January 18, 202540m 17s
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Show Notes
There was much about Cromwell that was Elizabethan. He was fiercely patriotic, he dreamed of building as trading nation, and laying low the Spanish Empire with a Protestant Alliance. The Western Design against the Spanish Caribbean was part of that plan. It's outcome was to be a crisis for me; and in the face of security threats from within and without, and the withdrawal of God's approval a bold experiment was needed - enter the Major Generals
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