You are mistaken, Diane. You haven't read "Captain Cuellar's Adventures" Look under Spanish to English translations. http://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html The plunderers didn't understand Spanish and they were most likely unaware the Spaniards were there to help the Irish fight the English. Not that it would have made a difference....... At 04:01 AM 3/5/2013, you wrote: >Not by the Irish natives. After they were taken prisoner by the >army, many were slaughtered. Unfortunately, that was common practice >when there no prison camps to hold the captured. > >Diane > > > >At 07:32 PM 3/4/2013, you wrote: > >Thank you, Pat--a true wealth of historic work. Just read a good > >bit of "Captain Cuellar's Adventures...". A new perspective of the > >defeat of the Armada... > >Peter Trainer > >Glad someone found that site useful. > >I'll have to read that Armada one. All I ever heard about that was >that the Irish natives slaughtered the shipwrecked crew.