Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun drogheda

1 sense of drogheda

Sense 1
Drogheda -- (in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants)
       INSTANCE OF=> battle, conflict, fight, engagement -- (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement")