The Lord Deputy ordered all Spanish castaways in Ireland killed

Evidence

His simple policy was to kill them all as soon as they could be found. In the main, that was done. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 828

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 828
• XREF: connects to: The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways and helped them escape — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829; The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways rather than murdering them — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829; The Spanish lost 44 ships and estimates suggest that between 10,000 to 20,000 people were killed or went missing. — Anglo-Spanish War: How the English Defeated the Spanish Armada

Library Connections

• The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways rather than murdering them #contradicts (0.95) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829