 | Margaret Fuller - 1895 - 458 trang
...any that 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 into the other part of the town ; and where about one hundred of them possessed St. Peter's Church, steeple, &c. These,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 414 trang
...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...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 into the other part... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 428 trang
...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...and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men ; — divers of the officers and soldiers being Jled over the Bridge into the other part... | |
 | John Richard Green, Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 472 trang
...them," ran Cromwell's terrible dispatch, " were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare...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 to... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 trang
...every man of the Drogheda (Tredah) garrison to death — " I forbade them (wrote Cromwell to Lenthall) to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men " — and condones this merciless act thus : " To those who think that a land overrun... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1898 - 248 trang
...64 of ours. Ashton, the governor, killed, none spared." It is also certain that quarter was refused. "I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town." It is expressly told us that all officers and all priests taken were killed. From the days of Clarendon... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - 1899 - 228 trang
...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...soldiers being fled over the bridge into the other part of the town, where about 100 of them possessed St. Peter's Church-steeple, some the west gate,... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - 1899 - 586 trang
...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...soldiers being fled over the bridge into the other part of the town, where about 100 of them possessed St. Peter's Church steeple, some the west gate,... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - 1899 - 584 trang
...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...and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2ooo men ; divers THE CITY STORMKD 381 of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge into... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 trang
...them," ran Cromwell's terrible despatch, " were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare...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... | |
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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 2000 men... 
