Again: hard to respond to a vague memory, but I guess the message is that
in a long history of English predation in Ireland Cromwell wasn't so bad.
Of course he did replace with his own almost all the Irish landed class.
Good to remember the conditions of 17th century warfare, that the
countryside it happened to be in was the army's larder. No matter who won
the locals lost big time--if the war didn't get them starvation often did.
At 09:10 AM 7/1/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>One additional point. According to the `Drogheda man' (who I
>think was a local historian) Cromwell's behaviour was actually
>pretty mild. Nothing of the massacres of Wallenstein etc.
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