<span>Oliver Cromwell led the military forces of parliament
against the Kings troops in a period known as the English Civil War. Oliver
Cromwell was not only a great military leader, but he was also a renowned
political leader. Later on he went on to become the Lord Protector of England, Ireland
and Scotland. He was born in the year 1599 and died of natural causes in the
year 1658. In the year 1630 he underwent a religious conversion and became an
independent Puritan. </span>
The American West was indeed a land of great opportunity from 1865 to 1900 in the sense that there was an abundance of land and resources available to all those willing to go west.
