Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation Prize? The English Conquest of

Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation Prize? The English Conquest of Jamaica

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Carla Gardina Pestana, professor of history at UCLA, will argue for the importance of Cromwell's effort and its outcome. Oliver Cromwell got only to Jamaica despite sending a massive expeditionary force to conquer the Spanish West Indies. This is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington.

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