… such as Reilly have the facts on their side when they claim that those who were massacred at Drogheda by Cromwell had not taken part in the riots. Furthermore, Mr Spanner argues as if he believed that some wicked foreign nation “attacked English shipping and commerce” so the English were right in slaughtering the Irish. The 3,000 soldiers who died at Cromwell’s hand in Drogheda represented the Protestant England which Cromwell hated and rebelled against and were composed of …