God’s Battleaxe

About the Book

Until now the history of John Bradshawe, Lord President of England’s short-lived Republic, has been confined to footnotes in the biographies of other men. The author of this first full-length survey of Bradshawe’s life draws from unpublished material to tell of a remarkable career during England’s most turbulent period. John Milton said he exceeded the glory of all former tyrannicides. Dr. George Bate called him a “viper of hell.” In 1775 Benjamin Franklin said John Bradshawe’s deeds presented the most glorious example of unshaken virtue, love of freedom, and impartial justice ever exhibited on the blood-stained theater of human actions and urged that his memory be forever blessed.

About the Author

During a twenty-four year residence in London Richard Lee Bradshaw devoted himself to studies in art, genealogy, and British history, particularly the 1642 - 1776 period of English American colonization. He studied English watercolor techniques and achieved success in having his paintings accepted for the Royal Academy Open show and the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1986. He began writing in 1990, contributing to Margaret Hyde’s 1996 book Thomas Arden of Faversham, and publishing articles on the East India Company’s Nepalese War of 1815. He has been a member of the London’s Institute of Historical Research, The Society of Genealogists, and The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour.