"This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy."

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What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant

— Ronald Hutton