I don't think his soul would of rested very well after they dug up his corpes and and hung from Westminster Abbey for all too see lol.
Fear is as powerful a tool in ruling the masses now as it was then. Amazing the lengths they'll go to.
Distraction is useful too. Dead soldiers, killed in wars they shouldn't be fighting don't keep sheeple happily baahing.
"Old men talk whilst young men die".