 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 876 pages
...Mill-Mount. " Our men getting up to them," ran Cromwell's terrible dispatch, "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 death about two thousand men." A few fled to St. Peter's church, " whereupon I ordered the steeple... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1878 - 568 pages
...considerable officers, being there, our men, getting up to them, were ordered Ъуте to put tltem all to the sword. And, indeed, being in the heat of...action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in tbe town ; and, I think, that night they put to the sword about two thousand men; — divers of the... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - 1878 - 512 pages
...before an issue. " I forbade them," he says quietly, in his despatch after the storming of Drogheda, " I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town ; and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men." This was the order of the day in the Irish campaign ; and... | |
 | Philip Dwyer - 1878 - 630 pages
...considerable officers being in the Mill -Mount, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me io put them all to the sword. And indeed being in the heat of action. J forbad them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 480 pages
...Mill-Mount. " Our men getting up to them," ran Cromwell's terrible despatch, " 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 death about two thousand men." A few fled to St. Peter's church, " whereupon I ordered the steeple... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - 1879 - 752 pages
...defense.* But Cromwell's report softens the reddest colors of the accusation. Of his troops he says: "Being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town." If all the military officers were slain the small remnant of the soldiers who surrendered were nearly... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1880 - 352 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...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men, divers of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1882 - 444 pages
...and of difficult access." "Our men," says Cromwell, " 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." A party of the enemy had sought refuge in three towers, one of them... | |
 | Denis Murphy - 1883 - 538 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 jibout 2,000 men. ' It was manned with 250 of the best men ; when they saw their companions... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 238 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...were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men. . The next day the other two towers were summoned, in one... | |
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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... 
