TEXT The Irish Problem
He first
attacked Drogheda and captured it, killing over
3000 people. He then marched on Wexford
town and massacred several hundred people
there. The surrounding towns of Cork, Bandon,
Kinsale and Youghal surrendered. Cromwell
left Ireland in 1650 having dealt a severe blow
to the uprising Irish.
The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (164953)
~The Land to be paid~
A problem of equal concern to Cromwell after the Civil War, however, was the fact that most
of the soldiers in the Roundhead army still needed paid for their time served in the Civil War,
but Parliament had no money to give them. So Cromwell decided to pay them in land. He
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