Pants-of-dog wrote: factually incorrect
You only have to look at the first paragraph to see what a shoddy piece of work it is.
Example:
After the Battle of Kinsale 1601, the English had captured some 30,000 military prisoners, and thus created an official policy of banishment, or transportation.Of the 3,400 prisoners captured after the Siege of Kinsale, not one was transported to the West Indies.
After coming to terms, approximately 3,300 Spanish soldiers surrendered and were given passage back to Spain.
Very few Irish prisoners were taken, less than 100, by all accounts. And, by all accounts, all were summarily executed.
See John J. Silke,
Spain and the Invasion of Ireland, 1601-2. Irish Historical Studies. Vol. 14, no. 56 (1965): 295-312.
Example:
James IIElizabeth I (1588-1603) methinks if such a policy was instituted after the Battle of Kinsale (1601).
O'Neill's Scots mercenaries had been expelled from the province in 1601, but not to the New World, and they were not Irish.
See
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Vol CCVII, pt 2, p91
In 1616, under James 1, six thousand Gaelic former soldiers were sent abroad into the Swedish service, but not to the Americas, and they eventually defected to Catholic Spain. To be followed by thousands of others, whose clan leaders were allowed to return to recruit them – so anxious were the English to get them out of Ireland.
See Padraig Lenihan,
Consolidating Conquest, Ireland 1603-1727, p48
Example: "
The first recorded sale of Irish slaves was to a settlement on the Amazon River, in 1612."
From the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
...when at last the French ship reached the principal island of Sapanopoko, they found the shallop waiting for them, and the islanders prepared for their arrival. These islanders are described as "les Anglois et les Hirlandois".... both nations had settled on the island, and were exploiting its fertility for a common purpose... Here the diary notes briefly: habitation des Hirlandois... [On] a contemporary Dutch map, by Dutch writer Jan de Laet... the settlement is clearly marked, some miles up the river from the juncture with the Amazon.— Aubrey Gwynn.
An Irish Settlement on the Amazon. (1612-1629). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. 41, 1932, pp. 1–54
There are no Irish slaves on the Amazon River in 1612, just free men growing tobacco and making their fortune.
Reasons for edits: To put a 'but' here and a ',' there and tidy formatting.
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