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If we beat the King ninety-nine times, yet he is king still and so will his posterity be after him; but if the king beat us once we shall all be hanged, and our posterity made slaves.

Edward Montagu

Edward Montagu

Edward Montagu

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Born: 1602

Died: May 5, 1671 (aged 69)

Bio: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.

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