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| 2. Ireland |
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| 1648–49 |
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| Outbreaks of dysentery and smallpox as well as plague (which reached Galway 1649). Problems with disease continued over next few years. | 1 |
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| 1649, Jan. 17 |
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| Treaty between Ormond and the Confederacy assured Ormond that Irish Catholics would not be molested and resulted in Ormond joining royalist forces after Charles I was executed (Jan. 30). | 2 |
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| March 30 |
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| Parliament approved Cromwell as commander in chief of the forces in Ireland. | 3 |
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| June 22 |
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| Cromwell made governor general of Ireland. | 4 |
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| Aug. 15 |
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| Cromwell arrived in Dublin and proceeded to take Drogheda (Sept. 11) and Wexford (Oct. 11). He massacred the troops and townspeople in both cases. | 5 |
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| Dec. 4 |
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| In the wake of Cromwell's success, Irish bishops met and appealed for Catholic unity. The lord lieutenant of Ireland responded with a declaration for the “undeceiving of deluded and seduced people.” | 6 |
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