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Siege of Galway 1651

Siege of Galway: Old-Galway
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Marker: recorded battle location (no official boundary).

Key facts

Date (year)1651Wikidata P580 start time
Century17th centuryderived
PeriodCivil Warsderived
CountryIrelandderived
War / conflictIrish Confederate WarsWikidata

About the battle

The siege of Galway took place from August 1651 to 12 May 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Galway was the last city held by Irish Catholic forces in Ireland and its fall signalled the end to most organised resistance to the Parliamentarian conquest of the country.

The English Parliamentarians were commanded by Charles Coote, an English settler who had commanded Parliamentarian forces in the northwest of Ireland throughout the Irish Confederate Wars. Galway was garrisoned by Irish Confederate soldiers under Thomas Preston, many of whom had reached the city after an unsuccessful defence of Waterford.

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Location

  • Recorded location (Wikidata; may be approximate): 53.2728, -9.0417

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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Siege of Galway (revision 1370741391), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations removed. No text added.

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