trysail
Catch Me Who Can
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I don't know enough about Cromwell to argue what motivated his actions in Ireland. It might be hard for me to recognise any redeeming qualities in a man who oversaw a war that killed 40% of the indigenous population (if you include war related disease and famine) but I'm willing to be informed.![]()
He conducted what can only charitably be described as a scorched earth campaign. Drogheda and Wexford appear to have been flat-out murder and slaughter, though Antonia Fraser in her biography of Cromwell provides some mitigating considerations in respect of the Drogheda bloodbath.