| Adrian Tinniswood - 2007 - 604 pagina’s
...both garrisons fled, which was exactly the purpose of his behavior after the siege. "The enemy was filled . . . with much terror. And truly I believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the grace of God."1T Three days after Mun surrendered, he was walking in the streets of Drogheda... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1874 - 614 pagina’s
...Ormond's being one, under the command of Sir Edmund Varney. I do not believe, neither do I hear, that any officer escaped with his life, save only one Lieutenant,...this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God. I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone,... | |
| 1875 - 732 pagina’s
...cold blood. " I don't believe," writes Cromwell to the President of the Council of State, " that any officer escaped with his life, save only one lieutenant,...was the only man that escaped of all the garrison." As every part of the town was commanded from the Millmount, further resistance was useless ; the besiegers... | |
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