1. Oliver Cromwell and the Irish Problem By: Kyndra Krieger Lindsey Atwood Kaybre Talamantez

2. Background The Irish Confederate Catholics and Charles II made an alliance. The English would have tried to reconquer Ireland without the alliance. Parliament wanted to punish the Irish. Photo By: cdn.okcimg.com Photo By: http://cdn.okci mg.com/

3. Background Cont. Irish Towns Parliament got loans of $10 million. Cromwell and his army were Puritans. Photo By Typepad.com

4. T HE S IEGE OF D ROGHEDA Dublin’s Governor lead an army of 4,700 men. Drogheda was a major strongpoint that helped guard a route from Dublin to Ulster. Ormond decided to retreat to Kilkenny to get all of the survivors. Photo By: Irish historylinks.net

5. Fall of Drogheda Troops were Slaughtered Prevented the enemy to escape Massacred 2,000 people Photo By: bcw- project.org

6. The Siege of Wexford Cromwell and his army Massacred Civilians. Massacred 2,000 more enemy troops. Showed no remorse for any of the murders. Photo By: bcw- project.org

7. The forgotten white slaves... Cromwell rounded up hundreds of Irish Men, women and children and shipped them to various tropical islands. Such as Barbados. http://humboldtsentinel.com

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11. Works Cited http://www.historytoday.com/tom-reilly/cromwell-irish-question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-big-question-was- cromwell-a-revolutionary-hero-or-a-genocidal-war-criminal-917996.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-big-question-was- cromwell-a-revolutionary-hero-or-a-genocidal-war-criminal-917996.html http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white- slaves/31076 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white- slaves/31076 http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/cromwell/section6.rhtml