Rule of the Major-Generals
1655–57 English military government / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]