US town plans to drop reviled Cromwell crest
A US town plans to drop the family crest of Oliver Cromwell from its official coat of arms following complaints that the former English ruler was responsible for the massacre of thousands of Irish Catholics.
Historians say the Long Island community of Huntington was named after Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, the birthplace of Cromwell, who was Lord Protector in 1653 when the British settled there.
