 | Vincent Todd Harlow - Barbados - 1926 - 384 pages
...In his letter describing the storming of Drogheda, Cromwell wrote that, ' When they submitted, these officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbados.' 4 ' A terrible Protector this ', remarks Thomas Carlyle, ' ... he dislikes shedding blood,... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - World history - 1927 - 914 pages
...following is his own account of the manner in which he dealt with the captured garrisons: "When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head,...soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes" (practically sold into tropical slavery). Cromwell's savage cruelty in his dealings with the Irish... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 pages
...or seven score; but they refused." They were starved out, Cromwell goes on to relate; and "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... | |
 | Sir John William Fortescue - Generals - 1928 - 292 pages
...to the sword about two thousand men." Scattered parties in isolated posts held out until next day. "Their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed. ... I am persuaded that this is a judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbrued their... | |
 | Robert Brock Le Page, R. B. le Page, Andrée Tabouret-Keller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 292 pages
...from Dublin in 1644 Cromwell himself described his treatment of his Irish prisoners thus: '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... | |
 | Max Hastings - History - 1985 - 530 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... | |
 | David W. Galenson - Business & Economics - 2002 - 252 pages
...suppressed the Irish rebellion in 1649, he wrote of the captured army: "When they submitted, these officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbados"; quoted in Vincent T. Harlow, A History of Barbados, 1625-1685 (Oxford: Clarendon Press,... | |
 | Richard B. Sheridan - Business & Economics - 1994 - 572 pages
...suffered a similar fate after the storming of Drogheda, when Cromwell wrote: 'When they submitted, these officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbados'.10 Many forced labourers for the plantations came from the defeated armies, although the... | |
 | Tim Pat Coogan - History - 2002 - 788 pages
...Cromwellian era. Following the capture of the town of Drogheda, Cromwell himself wrote: 'When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head;...man of the soldiers killed and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes.'10 At the risk of digression I might observe here that these British foundations led... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. When they submitted, their officers weie knocked on the head ; and every tenth 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... | |
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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. 
