Died this day in 1649 in defence of King and Country, murdered by traitorous republicans.
In 1648, Sir Arthur joined the Earl of Ormonde, who had recently been made Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Confederates and other Royalist forces in Ireland. He was made governor of the vital port of Drogheda. Drogheda was a Protestant town in The Pale and had previously supported Parliament through two sieges by Irish Confederates.
In 1649, the demon incarnate, Oliver Cromwell, laid siege to Drogheda. The siege ended on 11 September, when Cromwell's forces stormed the town. Cromwell's troops were ordered to show no quarter to any man bearing arms; in Cromwell's words, in the heat of the action, "I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town...", and many of the defenders were killed by the victorious Parliamentarian soldiers. Sir Arthur and other English Royalists retreated to the defensible Millmount Fort. They eventually agreed to surrender after a parley on the bridge but were massacred after they laid down their arms. It is widely believed that the Parliamentarian soldiers killed Sir Arthur by bashing his brains out with his own wooden leg, which they believed concealed gold coins.
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