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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ndents were united; their strength lay in a small but well-disciplined army; the celerity and military genius of Cromwell ensured to them unity of counsels and promptness of action; they conquered their adversaries in detail; and the massacre of Drogheda, the field of Dunbar, and the victory of Worcester, destroyed the present hopes of the friends of monarchy. The lustre of Cromwell's victories ennobled the crimes of his ambition. When the forces of the insurgents had been beaten down, therejudgment. Nor was he entirely free from that Chap. XI.} bigotry which refuses to extend the rights of humanity beyond its own altars; Trial of Anne Hutchinson. he could thank God for the massacres of Cromwell in Ireland. Whitelocke, 428. Drogheda is taken, 3552 of the enemy slain, Ashton killed; none spared. I came now from giving thanks in the great church. And yet benevolence was deeply fixed in his heart; he ever advocated he rights of the feeble, and pleaded for the sufferings of th