 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 292 pages
...the said towers, notwithstanding their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head...of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped... | |
 | 1847 - 1054 pages
...of a church 5 and how, when a remnant were compelled to surrender through the pressure of hunger, " their officers were knocked on the head, and every...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes." Cromwell closes his letter thus—" I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment... | |
 | 1847 - 530 pages
...of a church; and how, when a remnant were compelled to surrender through the pressure of hunger, " their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers hilled, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes." Cromwell closes his letter thus—" I am persuaded... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1848 - 796 pages
...1649, which describes the massacre executed by his commands at Drogheda, Cromwell writes, ' When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only, and shipped... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...said towers, notwithstanding their con" dition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When " they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head...of the soldiers killed ; and the rest " shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other " tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Great Britain - 1848 - 334 pages
...the said towers, notwithstanding their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head...of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - Famines - 1850 - 464 pages
...said towers, notwithstanding their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men ; and when they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head,...soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared as to their lives only, and shipped likewise for Barbadoes.... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1850 - 456 pages
...the said Towers, notwithstanding their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head...of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only; and shipped... | |
 | William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald De Ros (23d baron) - Military art and science - 1851 - 594 pages
...the said towers, notwithstanding their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head,...of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only, and shipped... | |
 | Missions - 1852 - 1190 pages
...eaptives, whether Irish or English. Thus he writes, after the taking of Drogheda, in 1648, ' When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head,...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbodoes. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only, and shipped... | |
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When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes. 
