 During the Interregnum (1649–1660) the power of all the republican experiments in governance relied on the military might of the New Model Army, which, whenever it was called upon, was easily able to meet the challenges of its enemies, both foreign and domestic.Two particularly notable events of the interregnum were to have long-lasting effects.The first was political; the army's complete seizure of power when Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament in 1653 is the closest to a "coup d'état" that England has had, and the subsequent Rule of the Major-Generals.