George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English general and politician.

Quotes

• What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.
  • During the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
  • The myth of the free market: the role of the state in a capitalist economy by Mark Anthony Martinez, p. 116

About

• Little General Monck
  Sat upon a trunk,
  Eating a crust of bread;
  There fell a hot coal
  And burnt in his clothes a hole,
  Now little General Monck is dead.
  • Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6

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