Cromwell's Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland

The story of Oliver Cromwell's Massacre of the city of Drogheda, Ireland.

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• Cromwell
• Drogheda
• Ireland
• Massacre

[evi1ROBOT]

The irish still banging on about cromwell! let it go people geez...

[blunt1984]

"Let it go people"?!

Are you gonna tell that to the Jews next?

evi1ROBOT (2 days ago)

The jews still banging on about hitler! let it go people geez...

[1994dublin]

This is complete bull. The soldiers didnt break orders and killed civilians. He ordered st peters church to be burned knowing that many innocent civilians were inside

[blunt1984]

6:49-7:01

"When forces on one side of the river surrendered, it is alleged that Cromwell, still meeting resistance on the other side, ordered the annihilation of the entire population."

I am not trying to make any excuses for Cromwell because view him as a prequel to Hitler. This is just what I found in a historical article about the incident.

[HumanSayNo]

The part about selling the survivors as slaves has opened up a new line of research for me. Thanks!

[crazyknight2008]

give me a bag of popcorn, ill jump on my time toad and leap back into the past and see what really happened, (fade in to me stuffin my mouth with popcorn watching what cromwell really did saying "Ahhh so thats what really went down, cool" ) then unfortunatley as i turn to jump back on my time toad some lousy peasent speared him and is now roastin him on a fire..bastard.

[XxcherryxXbabeXx]

this helped me with my history more than my history notes did lol! thanks v good video :)

[FortuitousTruths]

@evi1ROBOT Dude don't think of it as banging on about him, think of it as part of their history, culture and heritage. It's an element that brings these people together much like the American Revolutionary War would for most Americans, or how the crucification of Jesus Christ brings Christians together. So don't get mad, get glad!

[libertycaps666]

@simssamui what?????????? since when lol

[simssamui]

@libertycaps666 . you should lay off them shooms. he's gone already.

[simssamui]

@TenderTrap86 Rubbish.  where ya time machine.

[simssamui]

yet again those unelected spongers trying to re-write history. What a bloody sunday lie in the 70's/ and a stupid monarch then and a stupid monarch now. off with their head plz.

[TenderTrap86]

@ADZ01982 I believe it's to the contrary. While his tactics may have not been anymore brutal, Cromwell was more brutal than most in that he believed he was doing God's will.

I also believe that most Irish and British historians would hardly call military conflicts between the Irish and the English a "civil war". Technically, these events transpired during the English Civil War, however, Ireland was always dealt with more like a colony than part of the UK, proper, even up into the 1900's.

[ADZ01982]

@TenderTrap86 He was no more brutal than any other military leader of his age. He massacred his English royalist enemies the Scots and Irish, but civil wars are always tragic and brutal.