High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sack of Wexford (Irish: Sléacht Loch Garman) took place in October 1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell took Wexford town in south-eastern Ireland. The English Parliamentarian troops broke into the town while the commander of the garrison was trying to negotiate a surrender - massacring soldiers and civilians alike. Much of the town was burned and its harbour was destroyed. Along with the Siege... Mehr
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