 | Richard B. Sheridan - 1994 - 572 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 788 Seiten
...capture of the town of Drogheda, Cromwell himself wrote: '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.'10 At the risk of digression I might observe here that these British foundations... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 388 Seiten
...their condition, they killed and wounded 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 Barbadoes. The soldiers in the other Tower were all spared, as to their lives only... | |
 | Victor Buchli - 2004 - 542 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Stephen C. Manganiello - 2004 - 632 Seiten
...I burn.' The next day, the other two Towers were summoned. 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. I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous... | |
 | Ben Walsh - 2004 - 188 Seiten
...confound me: l burn, l burn.' The next day, the other soldiers submitted, their officers were clubbed on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes ... l believe this is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches,... | |
 | Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton - 2007 - 385 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 906 Seiten
...towers were summoned, but they refused to yield themselves. . . .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 [to be sold as slaves] 1 am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of... | |
 | Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway - 1911 - 162 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)... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1874 - 614 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;... | |
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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. 
