Lord Protector Mode: ON

Oliver Cromwell started as a leader of Parliament during the English Civil War fighting for what he saw as liberty and a more godly England. By the time he became Lord Protector his rule was marked by strict Puritan reforms banning Christmas closing theaters and his brutal campaign in Ireland including the Siege of Drogheda cemented his reputation as ruthless and unflinching.

When his son was overthrown and his laws repealed his fanatical supporters cried religous persecution and fled to the new world to found a colony of some sorts.

I’m pretty sure the English Protectorate is the only case of a country successfully revolting against a hereditary monarch and replacing it with a republic (although Cromwell did make his son become leader after he died, basically negating the non hereditary appeal), just for the republic to be so bad that the people willingly brought the hereditary monarchy back Edit: France doesn’t really count, Napoleon took it and then the Ancien Regime was reinstalled by outside powers, in England it was the country doing it willingly both times

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