If it is all true what Genghis is saying it was truly horrible. The trouble is that the truth is many times covered over and then you find out later that something else happened. I would not be that much against the idea of someone overthrowing the king. I would understand that there were reasons for it. Sometimes in a war things can't all go nice. In that time terrible things were probably done on both sides. I understand that terrible things happened. I wanted to see what happened here with the interesting sounding name of Drogheda. It is something that I had just seen in history but I don't remember them showing all that. When the enemy is not that far removed things like that can turn people against your cause.

"The Irish had supported Charles I's Royalists in the English Civil War (1641–49) as part of their Great Rebellion against the English government in the 1640s. Cromwell's army was taking revenge for this collusion and the Portadown Bridge massacre of Protestant planters (settlers) in 1641."

Cromwell, I have to say, was a forceful man and objectively quite a proficient military leader. He was also, despite considerable ability essentially England's primary contribution to the long and sad roll of history's monstrous murderers, a glorified brigand, and responsible at least as much as anyone else, and probably more for the sad events in that country's history. This is something  more akin to say Wounded Knee than a fair fight.  While I am not a particularly religious man nor an ethnocentric one, the next time some goober with an eighth grade education and a head full of Jack Chick or that swine Hagee or some buffoon from that charisma deficient tribe of bowler hat wearing thieves- it's ironic how little we hear in North America about THAT particular brand of terrorists- rails against the sinister forces of Roman Popery, he oughta Google this event  in order to understand the backlash he may receive.

Today is September 11. On this day in history, in 1649, Drogheda, a little town in Ireland north of Dublin fell to Oliver Cromwell and his parlimentary army that had been beseiging the place. A royalist garrison was holding out for King Charles II whose father, Charles I, Cromwell and the other regicides, murder just a few months earlier.

Cromwell called on the town to surrender on September 10, but the royalist governor, Arthur Aston, refused. About half the garrison was English and half Irish.

Cromwell's New Model Army stormed the town on this date, September 11, and massacred the garrison and the townspeople. Cromwell's soldiers ran through the town killing people as they ran. A group in a fort surrendered under terms. They were disarmed and then killed by Cromwell's troops.

A group of civilians were shut up in St. Peter's Church and burned to death. On and on we go with the hallowed memory of Oliver!

The few survivors of the town were enslaved and sent to the Barbados in the West Indies.