Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
When you read about Cromwell's contempt for human life as whole - massacre of Drogheda, treatment of the Levellers etc, the fact that he "left the fate of these poor souls in the hands of others" doesn't really excuse him.

He created the political agenda for such things to happen and we well know even in the 20th century what that could lead to.

Baldwin's Law carefully circumnavigated there...

But was it not very much what happened in those times? Look at Francis Drake (before he became "Sir") and his English troops massacring some 600 unarmed men, women and children on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland in 1575 or the Campbells who committed a far worse atrocity in Rathlin island in 1640 than anything they did in Glencoe.