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Agitator is a term for a person that actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions.

English Agitators

In the English-speaking world, the term first referred to men who were elected to present complaints of army soldiers, including the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War. They were also known as adjutators.

The practice begun in 1647 when the Long Parliament wanted to either disband the armies or send them to Ireland. Soldiers did not appreciate that and eight of the cavalry regiments elected representatives they called commissioners, who presented the soldiers' complaints, including the fact that their payments were eight weeks late. In April 3 1647 their letter was read in the House of Commons.

Other units followed suit and foot soldiers elected agitators who presented the declaration of the army. Officers supported them and co-signed their declaration. Cromwell and others promised payment.

Before the generals could return to London, parliament again decided to disband the army and settled June 1 as the date that would happen. Agitators resisted, soldiers of one regiment mutinied and refused to disband. In a conference on Thriplow Heath agitators demanded that the troops would march to London and "purge" the House of Commons.

Later Levellers adopted many of the Agitator's ideas.

Negative sense

The term was first used in negative sense about those who supported Irish Home rule and eventual independence, especially Daniel O'Connell.

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The New Model Army became the best known of the various Parliamentarian armies in the English Civil War. It comprised professional soldiers led by trained generals, unlike other military forces of the era, which tended to have
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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England, Scotland and Ireland into a republican Commonwealth and for his brutal conquest of Ireland.
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The English Civil War consisted of a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians (known as Roundheads) and Royalists (known as Cavaliers) between 1642 and 1651.
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Long Parliament was preceded by the Short Parliament. It was purged by Pride to become the Rump Parliament, dissolved by Cromwell, restored (as the Rump) twice in 1659, restored to its pre-purge state by Monck, and succeeded by the Convention Parliament.
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Cavalry (from French cavalerie) were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback in combat. The designation was not usually extended to any military force that used other animals, such as camels or mules.
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April 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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The Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled

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Speaker Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated)
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Leader Harriet Harman, (Labour)
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June 1 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Levellers were members of a mid 17th century English political movement, who came to prominence during the English Civil Wars. They were not a political party in the modern sense of the word, so people whom historians have labeled Levellers did not subscribe to a specific party
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Home rule refers to a demand that constituent parts of a state be given greater self-government within the greater administrative purview of the central government.
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.

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Daniel O'Connell (6 August, 1775 – 15 May, 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was Ireland's predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century who championed the cause of the Catholic tenants
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Agitprop (Russian: агитпроп) is a contraction of "agitation and propaganda".
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