WEXFORD IS SACKED
In what is still remembered as one of the worst atrocities on Irish soil, the New Model Army lays waste to the town of Wexford
During the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - part of the British Civil Wars - the port town of Wexford was subject to a ferocious slaughter at the hands of the New Model Army, a professional military unit created by the English Parliament in 1645 to defeat the Royalist forces of King Charles I. Still regarded as an atrocity to this day, the sack of Wexford saw the New Model Army storm the town in the midst of ongoing peace negotiations, stopping little short of razing it to the ground.