 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1894 - 502 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... | |
 | Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway - Agriculture - 1895 - 408 pages
...the colonies. As OLIVER reported after the taking of Drogheda, "When they submitted their off1cers were knocked on the head ; and every tenth man of...soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other towns were all spared as to their lives only, and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 414 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 428 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... | |
 | 1898 - 728 pages
...relates among the details of the surrender at Drogheda, where Sir Edmund met his fate : ' When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head,...soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for Barbadoes.' However, Sir John Harrison was able to escape to Oxford, and to call his daughters to him there. His... | |
 | John Richard Green, Julian Hawthorne - Great Britain - 1898 - 472 pages
...remnant who surrendered through hunger, " when they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes." "I am persuaded," the dispatch ends, "that this is a righteous judgment of God upon... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - Great Britain - 1899 - 584 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...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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 pages
...driven to yield at last through hunger, " when they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes." "I am persuaded," the despatch ends, " that this is a righteous judgment of God upon... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 pages
...of them were put to the sword, fleeing thither for safety." Of those in one of the towers, 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... | |
 | 1900 - 994 pages
...of them were put to the sword, fleeing thither for safety." Of those in one of the towers, when they submitted, "their officers were knocked on the head,...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbados. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared as to their lives only, and shipped likewise... | |
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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. 
