Winston Churchill, 1 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
26-27 (1956), commented:
"This is probably the most horrible episode which our Island has known. We
see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by
the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right
of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional
severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the
invaders' hearth."