Regional1649

Battle of Drogheda

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Ireland

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Drogheda (1649), part of the British Civil Wars. England defeated Irish Confederation, English Royalists. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents3

England
Irish Confederation
English Royalists

ON THE MAPKingdom of England

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Three Kingdoms

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Drogheda (1649). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-drogheda · Sources & methodology