Rule of the Major-Generals

The Rule of the Major-Generals, was a period of direct military government from August 1655 to January 1657,[1] during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate.[2] England and Wales were divided into ten regions,[3] each governed by a major-general who answered to the Lord Protector.

The period quickly "became a convenient and powerful symbol of the military nature of the unpopular Interregnum state".[4]

  1. ^ Little 2007, p. 15.
  2. ^ Bremer & Webster 2006, p. 452.
  3. ^ Royle 2006, p. 698.
  4. ^ Durston 2001, p. 231.