Today in History - October 11

1649 - Cromwell's New Model Army Sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians (Source)

I think it was Oliver Cromwell who said:

"You need not hope in order to undertake, and you need not succeed in order to persevere." The following sermons and podcasts are on Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War:

Oliver Cromwell: Saint, Soldier, Statesmen, by Dr. Alan Cairns (Text: Hebrews 8)

Oliver Cromwell, by Dr. Peter Hammond

Oliver Cromwell and His Russet-Coated Heroes, by Bill Potter

The Life and Labors of Oliver Cromwell, by Rev. Colin Mercer

Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: 1 Samuel 18:12)

1837 - Samuel Wesley, English organist and composer died (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  Religion Without Regeneration: John Wesley's Personal Testimony

1899 - The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Emily Hobhouse and the Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, by Dr. Peter Hammond

1954 - In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam (Source)Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War:

"Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."

"Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."

"In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."

"President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kennedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."

"Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"

"A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."