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This is a photograph of a present day reenactment of the battle between Aston and Cromwell's men after the Parliamentary forces manage to enter the city.

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, the man who led the campaign in Ireland that ended the Irish confederate wars. He and his men reestablished English rule in Ireland after the English Civil War.

This gate is the last of ten that surrounded the city of Drogheda prior to Cromwell's siege of the town in 1649. The heavy artillery fire of the English army decimated the defensive structures with little effort, and the attack left the town in…