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School: St. Vincent de Paul, Drogheda (roll number 851)

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Drogheda, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Sr. Magdalen
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    soldiers made the breach to enter the town and he then told me the following story. When Cromwell was a few miles outside the town he knew it would be difficult to get into the town owing to its high walls. One evening he met an old woman who was carring a can of fresh butter-milk and he asked her to show him the weakest part of the wall. She told him she would be afraid to be seen with his soldiers but Cromwell then decided on a plan. He made a small hole in her butter-milk can and gave her
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    Patrick Mc Enaney
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