...conquest was prosecuted. "I am persuaded," he wrote, "that this is a righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood." He alluded to the massacre in 1641 by the native Irish, but the sufferers at Drogheda were chiefly...

...more to do with Cromwell's deeds in Ireland than cruelty of disposition. "I am persuaded," he says, "that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future." No one can help seeing in these words a revengeful justice excited by the Popish massacres of 1641,...

...(he writes) "that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret." It appears probable, on a consideration of the whole affair, that Cromwell had undertaken the business...

...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 these...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future." 1104. A detachment sufficed to relieve Derry and to quiet Ulster; and Cromwell turned to the south,...

...conquest was a series of awful massacres. ' I am persuaded,' he says, ' that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbrued...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future.' She was, as ever since, undisguisedly governed as a dependency won by the sword. Scotland, joined to...

...Indies and sold as slaves. Cromwell justified these cruel proceedings, ou the ground that " it was a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches,...that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood in the future, which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work...

...'I am persuaded,' he says, 'that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretehes who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood,...to prevent the effusion of blood for the future.' She was, as ever since, undisguisedly governed as a dependency won by the sword. Scotland, joined to...

...commander who forbids his men to give quarter. He himself had no relentings. " I am persuaded" (he writes) "that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches who have imbued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood...

...surrounded him does not seem to have wrought any compunction in his soul : 'I am persuaded,' he says, ' that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these...for the future, which are the satisfactory grounds of such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse, and regret. The officers and soldiers of...

...the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. " I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of...which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret. The officers and soldiers of this Garrison were the flower of their army. And their great expectation...