General-of-the-Horse Oliver Cromwell, commanding the (Puritan) New Model (standing) Army, orders the slaughter of Irish Catholic subjects at Wexford and Drogheda.
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References:
William Cobbett, Parliamentary history of England. From the Norman conquest, in 1066. To the year, 1803, 36 volumes, (London: T.C. Hansard, 1806-20), 3:1334.
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