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]
- ^ Little 2007, p. 15.
- ^ Bremer & Webster 2006, p. 452.
- ^ Royle 2006, p. 698.
- ^ Durston 2001, p. 231.
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