The only comparable case in Cromwell's career was that at Basing House, where 100 soldiers out of 400 were killed after a successful assault . " So the Drogheda massacre does stand out for its mercilessness, for its combination of ruthlessness and calculation, for its combination of hot-and cold-bloodiness ".
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During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor ( r . 1661 1722 ) in the Qing dynasty, the warriors of the Xilufan revolt were so feared that the two ministers the Kangxi Emperor ordered to end their attacks fled China rather than face either the mercilessness of the Xilu warriors, which often involved beheading, or the displeasure of the emperor, which often involved beheading.
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In the seven issues that comprised the " Vieux Cordelier ", Desmoulins condemned the suspicion, brutality, and fear that had come to characterize the Revolution, comparing the ongoing Revolutionary Terror to the oppressive reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius and calling for the establishment of a " Committee of Clemency " to counter the climate of mercilessness fostered by the Committee of Public Safety.
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But she is also assailing _ as she did in a controversial essay called " The Great Terror and the Little Terror " ( which can be found in her new nonfiction collection, " Pushkin's Children : Writings on Russ ) a nd Russians " ) _ what she sees as historical tendencies in the Russian soul, its rejection of reason, its " qefrelessness and mercilessness ."
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John Morrill commented, " A major attempt at rehabilitation was attempted by Tom Reilly, Cromwell : An Honourable Enemy ( London, 1999 ) but this has been largely rejected by other scholars . " Morrill himself argued, that what happened at Drogheda, " was without straightforward parallel in 17th century British or Irish history . . . So the Drogheda massacre does stand out for its mercilessness, for its combination of ruthlessness and calculation, for its combination of hot-and cold-bloodiness ".
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Andersen had written tales with unhappy endings before ( " The Little Mermaid " and " The Steadfast Tin Soldier ", for example ) but a new note was struck with " The Fir-Tree " & mdash; a note of " deeply ingrained pessimism, suggesting not only the mercilessness of fate but the pointlessness of life itself, that only the moment is worthwhile . " For the first time in his fairy tales, Andersen expressed an existential doubt that his religious beliefs could not allay.
