Warfare in Elizabethan Ireland: Michael Morrogh shows that Renaissance men like Sir Walter Ralegh had a decidedly darker side.(THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST)

History Review | December 1, 2008| | Copyright

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Killing a lot of unarmed people was hard work in the old days. Once nations acquired automatic weapons it all became easier. At Babi Yar the executioners were Einsatzgruppen who sat behind machine guns, smoking cigarettes, and mowing down the victims into a mass grave. Thousands could be killed in that way in just one day. Nowadays we rely upon surgical bombing raids to do the business. But consider the task facing Elizabethan troops in Ireland on 10 November 1580. Lord Grey, the governor of Ireland, had just received the surrender of around ...

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