Cromwell
February 5th, 2010
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IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War. |
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why did oliver cromwell kill catholic irish?
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you ever heard the expression "The curse of Cromwell on you"
He was a Protestant that disliked the Catholics, he was against the Irish revolt, him and his soldiers took the land of the Catholics to pay off the debts to his troops. At this time in history there were a lot of political issues between New England as it was called and England and "New Ireland". This is all I know off the top of my head. You may need to research this further then I told you!
Sarah | Feb 03, 2010
He was a soldier, he went where he was ordered and did what he was ordered to do. The English regarded Ireland as a subject colony at the time and the Irish were in revolt.
How you feel about Cromwell pretty much depends on whether you are English or Irish, Protestant or Catholic and most of the Websites I’ve found are biased one way or the other.
Wiki - actually has a reasonably balanced site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Crom well
gaylene B | Feb 03, 2010
Only in combat.
Cromwell was sent to Ireland in 1649 to suppress a Catholic Irish revolt that had been going on since 1641. The Irish had allied themselves with the remnants of Royalist armies defeated in the English Civil Wars. Their combined forces were therefore a direct threat to the government in England that Cromwell represented.
Cromwell returned to England in May 1650, before the end of the campaign. The harsh settlement imposed on the Catholic population after the rebellion had been finally ended, was government policy, not Cromwell’s, and was implemented on the ground by other army commanders,as Cromwell was in England.
Cromwell supported the settlement, but neither thought it up nor carried it out on the ground.
The Catholic Irish killed by troops under Cromwell’s command were in the course of his military operations and clearly within the known and accepted (by both sides) rules of 17th century warfare.
ammianus | Feb 03, 2010
Yes.
Many thousands.
brainstorm | Feb 04, 2010
there was an uprising in ireland - he went with an army 2 a town, asked them to surrender he basically then wiped out that town so the next town would surrender.
think they where lined up and he let one in three live
gibbers | Feb 05, 2010
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