What the records say
- When
- 11 Dec 1920
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.90° N, 8.47° W
Placed at the area around the town it links, Cork.
Summary
Burning of Cork in Ireland: British forces set fire to some 5 acre of the centre of Cork, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
Burning of Cork
1920 British act in the Irish War of Independence
The burning of Cork by British forces took place during the Irish War of Independence on the night of 11–12 December 1920. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally.
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