| William Gorman Wills - 1873 - 120 Seiten
...considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them were ordered by me to put them all to the swoid; and indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any under arms in the town." And the cause of this rebellion was for liberty of conscience. Why do we English... | |
| John Richard Green - 1874 - 1080 Seiten
...MillMount. " Our men getting up to them," ran Cromwell's terrible despatch, "were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that Sue IX COMMONWEALTH. 16491653. The Conquest of Ireland. Aug. 1640. VIII.] [CHAP. Sue. IX. COMMOSWEALTIt.... | |
| Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 Seiten
...forbade them," Cromwell wrote in his despatch to the Parlia282 STORMING OF DBOGHEDA. [BUMP merit, " to spare any that were in arms in the town ; and I think that night they put to the sword about 2000 men." Of these, one-half probably fell in the streets ; the other half... | |
| 1875 - 738 Seiten
...palisaded. The Governor and many officers being there, our men getting up to them were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the town ; and I think that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men." Sir Arthur Ashton fell among the first ; " he had his brains beaten... | |
| Leopold von Ranke - 1875 - 610 Seiten
...'and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town1.' The Sunday before, mass had been said for the Catholic soldiers in the great church of the... | |
| Leopold von Ranke - 1875 - 610 Seiten
...'and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms' AD 1649. in the town1.' The Sunday before, mass had been safd for the Catholic soldiers in the great... | |
| William Dool Killen - 1875 - 668 Seiten
...his arms. When he had been about nine months in Ireland, he found it necessary to 1 Cromwell says : " I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword 2,000." Again he says : " The enemy were about 3,ooo strong in the town. ... I believe... | |
| John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 Seiten
...SEC IX. THK COMMONWRAI.TH. 1049 1653. The Conquest of Ireland. Aug. 1640. THE COMMONWEALTH. 16491653. were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to death about two thousand men." A few fled to St. Peter's church, " whereupon I ordered the steeple... | |
| Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 Seiten
..." Being in the heat of action I forbade them," Cromwell wrote in his despatch to the Parliament, " to spare any that were in arms in the town ; and I think that night they put to the sword about 2000 men." Of these, one-half probably fell iu the streets ; the other half... | |
| Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 Seiten
...and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the town ; and I think that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men." Sir Arthur Ashton was killed among the first ; " he had his brains... | |
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