at first cleansing the countryside In the six months following Stirling Bridge Wallace led a force to York at first cleansing the countryside This is such a touching reference to genocide that I can not let it pass If you re going to write history then you re going to have to stop making weasel comments excusing wanton killing of civilians whose only crime was to be born English If I remember rightly Mel Gibson s Braveheart did the same trick of mentioning this ethnic cleansing as a segue between scenes It s just as morally reprehensible as the English doing this to the Scots or Serbs doing this to Croats or you get the idea On the other hand if you re writing blatent propaganda then this is as good a place as any I m sure that Wikipedia s admins will support you because they don t know any better