Oliver Cromwell didn't get a normal death. Two years after his burial, he got th

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Cromwell's Corpse Dug Up and Executed: Two Years After He Died

Oliver Cromwell didn't get a normal death. Two years after his burial, he got the ultimate posthumous burn: his corpse was dug up, hanged in chains, then beheaded. The irony? This brutal spectacle happened on the exact anniversary of King Charles I's execution - the monarch Cromwell himself had put to death. His body was displayed at Tyburn gallows, a grotesque political statement that his enemies wanted the world to see. And see it they did: the man who'd overthrown a king, then ruled as a virtual king himself, ended up a macabre public display. Revenge, it seems, knows no time limit.

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