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think his admiration is for Cromwell's mixed use of military talents, religious fervor, and governing tactics, but someone fished out and old English history text and found a few additional facts concerning the sour-puss, soup-bowlhair-cut codger, whose picture is plastered in the hitory book along with Charles I and II. „ Oliver Cromwell is remembered by the Irish as the butcher of half the Irish race in the 1649-1650 campaigns. Chief among his massacres were those of Drogheda, in which 4000 defending soldiers were slaughtered after Cromwell promised quarter, and every civilian, including babies, was massacred. Cromwell readily admitted these orders in reports to Parliament which are freely quoted. In the town of Wexford the soldiery and the whole population were murdered after promise of amnes
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