03.04 - Drogheda: A Day and Night of Uncalculated Butchery

With the way cleared by the Battle of Rathmines, Oliver Cromwell
marches on Drogheda. The Royalist Governor Arthur Aston refuses to
surrender, and Cromwell's guns break the walls. The New Model Army
floods inside, and Cromwell forbids any mercy. Check out the
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