 | 1898 - 728 Seiten
...the surrender at Drogheda, where Sir Edmund met his fate : ' When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed ; and the rest shipped for Barbadoes.' However, Sir John Harrison was able to escape to Oxford, and to call his daughters... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - 1899 - 586 Seiten
...their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. 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. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only,... | |
 | 1900 - 994 Seiten
...fleeing thither for safety." Of those in one of the towers, when they submitted, "their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbados. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared as to their lives only, and... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 Seiten
...fleeing thither for safety." Of those in one of the towers, 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. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared as to their lives only,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 420 Seiten
...their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. 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. The soldiers in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1901 - 944 Seiten
...the manner in which he dealt with the captured garrisons : " When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes." The savage cruelty displayed by Cromwell in crushing the Irish uprising will... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 Seiten
...the manner in which he dealt with the captured garrisons : " When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes." Cromwell's savage cruelty in his dealings with the Irish is an indelible stain... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 544 Seiten
...their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. 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. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared (as to their lives only),... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 Seiten
...their condition, they killed and wounded some of our men. 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. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1905 - 878 Seiten
...the manner in which he dealt with the captured garrisons : " When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for Barbadoes." Cromwell's savage cruelty in his dealings with the Irish is an indelible stain... | |
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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. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared, as to their lives only ; and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes. 
