Siege of Drogheda

Drogheda, a town in eastern Ireland, was besieged twice in the 1640s, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first siege occurred during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when Phelim O'Neill and the insurgents failed to take the town. The second and more famous siege happened in 1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell took the town by storm and massacred its garrison.

Related Topics:
Drogheda - Ireland - Irish Confederate Wars - Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Phelim O'Neill - 1649 - Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - New Model Army - Oliver Cromwell

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