Siege of Drogheda

Not to be confused with Siege of Drogheda (1641).

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Siege of Drogheda (1649)
Part of the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland

A plan of Drogheda in 1649
Date3–11 September 1649
Location
Drogheda, County Louth
Result Commonwealth victory
Belligerents
Commonwealth of England Royalists
Irish Confederates
Commanders and leaders
Oliver Cromwell Arthur Aston 
Strength
c. 12,000 2,547
Casualties and losses
c. 150 killed or wounded c. 2,000 killed, wounded or captured
700–800 civilians killed
Drogheda
Belfast
Dublin
Ireland and Drogheda

The Siege of Drogheda, 3 to 11 September 1649, took place at the start of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The port of Drogheda was held by a mixed garrison of Irish Catholics and Royalists under the command of Sir Arthur Aston, when it was besieged by English Commonwealth forces under Oliver Cromwell.

After Aston rejected an invitation to surrender, the town was stormed and much of the garrison executed, along with an unknown but "significant number" of civilians. Its aftermath is viewed as an atrocity which still impacts Cromwell's modern reputation.

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