 | Vincent Todd Harlow - 1926 - 384 oldal
...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 - 1927 - 914 oldal
...terrible. The following is his own account of the manner in which he dealt with the captured garrisons: "When they submitted, their officers were knocked...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes" (practically sold into tropical slavery). Cromwell's savage cruelty in his dealings with... | |
 | Sir John William Fortescue - 1928 - 292 oldal
...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... | |
 | David W. Galenson - 2002 - 252 oldal
...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 - 1994 - 572 oldal
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 388 oldal
...compel .them, set only good guards to secure them from running away until their stomachs were come down. From one of the said Towers, notwithstanding their...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... | |
 | Victor Buchli - 2004 - 542 oldal
..."In his letters 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.' 'A terrible Protector this,' remarks Thomas Carlyle, '. . . he dislikes shedding blood,... | |
 | Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton - 2007 - 385 oldal
...December 1648, Roger Williams Correspondence, p. 260. storming of Drogheda "when they submitted, these officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth...man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbados."139 A deed in Barbados in 1654 mentions "Christian servants for their respective terms ...... | |
 | Asa Hollister Craig - 1899 - 540 oldal
...cannot do better than give his own statement when questioned as to the disposition of his prisoners: "When they submitted, their officers were knocked...tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped to Barbadoes.'' We find that in this manner twenty thousand were sent to the West Indies and sold as... | |
| |
When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped to the Barbadoes. 
