GC5Z63B Siege of Drogheda (Traditional Cache) in Leinster, Ireland created by myslovitzer

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A cache by myslovitzer Message this owner

Hidden : 7/12/2015

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From this Hill Cromwell won the battle for Drogheda's wall

From this Hill Cromwell lost the battle for the spirit of the Drogheda People.

The Siege of Drogheda took place on 3–11 September 1649 at the outset of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The town of Drogheda in eastern Ireland was held by theIrish Catholic Confederation andEnglish Royalists when it was besieged and stormed by English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell. In the aftermath of the assault, much of the garrison and an unknown but "significant number" of civilians were killed by the Parliamentarian troops.^[1]Historians debate the legality of Cromwell's killing of the garrison ofDrogheda and the extent to which civilians were targeted during the massacre.