Which famous English soldier was nicknamed Old Ironsides?
Edward Sexby Edward Sexby Colonel Edward Sexby or Saxby (1616 – 13 January 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination. Sexby was born in Suffolk in 1616 but little else is known about his life before the English Civil War. Reportedly he was a son of a gentleman, had been an apprentice as a grocer in London and may have had family connections to Cromwell. In 1643 he was a trooper in Cromwell's Roundhead cavalry regiment (nicknamed the Ironsides). In 1647, being still a private in
Old Ironsides (poem) already been in motion. Today, "Constitution" is well known by its nickname "Old Ironsides" and is the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat. Old Ironsides (poem) "Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the eighteenth-century frigate . Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat. <poem> Aye tear her tattered ensign down Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner