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Events on Monday 2 August 1649 1
1649Battle of RathminesParliamentarian victory secures Dublin before Cromwell's arrivalOn 2 August 1649, parliamentarian forces under Michael Jones routed a Royalist and Irish Confederate army besieging Dublin. The victory secured the city as a base and allowed Oliver Cromwell to land unopposed two weeks later. It is considered a turning point enabling the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.