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Persoonlijke gegevens Daniel Axtell 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1622 in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England.
• Hij is gedoopt op 26 mei 1622.
• Hij is overleden op 19 oktober 1660, hij was toen 38 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William Axtell en Thomasine Cutler

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1. Daniel Axtell  1640-1683 
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Notities over Daniel Axtell

Lieut.-Col. DaVery early in his life seems to have become convinced of the righteousness of the Parliamentary Cause. He joined Cromwell's insurrectionary army in 1643 and rose by merit and hard experience of many battles to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was junior in command of Colonel Thomas Pride in the action famous as "Pride's Purge", when one hundred royalist members of Parliament, who had refused to concur in majority rule, were expelled from the House of Commons. Subsequently Colonel Axtell--as we all know--commanded the Parliamentary Guard at King Charles' capital trial in Westminster Hall. Colonel Daniel Axtell was then 27 years old. For the next ten years he was constantly close to the protector, Oliver Cromwell; the greatest of poets, John Milton; John Bunyan, of "Pilgrim's Progress"; and all the other champions of the Puritan Cause. All this time, Prince Rupert, the dead king's nephew, from his base on the continent, was harassing Cromwell's Army. Colonel Axtell was constantly employed combatting these raids, and, northwards, subduing occasional forays of the recalcitrant royalist Scots. He accompanied Cromwell on several Irish expeditions, and was Governor of the Province of Kilkenny. He retired then, for a while, from the army, and went home for a quiet life in Berkhamstead. 'There he might have remained in safety had not his inflexible principles prompted him to volunteer to fight the return of the royal Stuarts to the last ditch. Quixotically (some might hold) he rushed to join General Lambert in the last hopeless battle, which was fought on Easter Sunday, 1660, at Daventry. Vastly outnumbered, the Republican Army had no chance. The conviction and execution of Colonel Daniel Axtell inevitably followed.
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