“This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.”

— Oliver Cromwell

After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)

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