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" I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 411
1847
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The Simple Cobler of Aggawam

Nathaniel Ward - 1647 - 120 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in armes in the Town, and I think, that night, they put to the sword about 2000 men : — divers of the...
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Life of Oliver Cromwell, Volume 2

Michael Russell - 1829 - 352 pages
...and diverse considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword : And indeed, being in the heat...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men. Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge...
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 pages
...and diverse considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword : And indeed, being in the heat...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men. Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge...
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Life of Oliver Cromwell, Volume 2

Michael Russell - 1838 - 394 pages
...and diverse considerable officers being there, our men, getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword : and indeed, being in the heat...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men. Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge...
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John Forster

1838 - 380 pages
...and diverse considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword ; and indeed, being in the heat...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men. Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge...
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The Eclectic Review

1840 - 764 pages
...these places, his own despatch coolly assures us that 'in the ' heat of action I forbade my soldiers to spare any that were in ' arms in the town, and I think that night, they put to the sword ' about two thousand men !' After the submission of one of the 2 u 2 fortresses, '...
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History of Ireland and the Irish People: Under the Government of England

Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...and diverse considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword ; and indeed, being in the heat...any that were in arms in the town, and I think that niaht they put to the sword about two thousand men. Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled...
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The History of Drogheda: With Its Environs, and an Introductory ..., Volume 2

John D'Alton - 1844 - 502 pages
...Aston and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting at them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword; and indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbad them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword...
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - 1845 - 588 pages
...and divers considerable Officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat...in arms in the Town : and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men;— divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the Bridge...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...getting up to them were ordered by me to put them all to the sword; and indeed, being in the height of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about 2000 men." At a further stage of the same assault, he coolly observes, " When...
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