WI: Oliver Cromwell killed at Marston Moor

[Night Gaul]

During the Battle of Marston Moor, Oliver Cromwell was slightly wounded in the neck. He was forced to leave the field to get treatment, but returned to help bring about a Parliamentarian victory.

Suppose the wound had been fatal. Would it have changed the course of the battle? What other effects might it have had?

 

[pjmidd]

During the Battle of Marston Moor, Oliver Cromwell was slightly wounded in the neck. He was forced to leave the field to get treatment, but returned to help bring about a Parliamentarian victory.

Suppose the wound had been fatal. Would it have changed the course of the battle? What other effects might it have had?

Major effect is on the aftermath of the civil war. No Cromwell and the Commonwealth is likely to collapse quickly just as it did after his OTL death. So possibly an earlier restoration, Civil War itself, Marston Moor is probably too late to get a Royalist victory but it is just possible if the Parliamentary Alliance fragments, the Scottish forces decide to withdraw from the war ( assuming a separate peace making Presbyterianism the only church in Scotland and other royal concessions ) and a major squabble erupts over who takes Cromwell's place paralyzing the opposition.