<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence" id="mwlg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish War of Independence">Irish War of Independence</a>: British police known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans" id="mwlw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Black and Tans">Black and Tans</a>" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Balbriggan" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sack of Balbriggan">burn the town of Balbriggan</a> and kill two local men in revenge for an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1919–1922)" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)">IRA</a> assassination.<sup about="#mwt67" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_20#cite_note-12" id="mwmg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwmw">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12">Leeson, D M. <i id="mwBxY">The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920–1921</i>. Oxford University Press, 2011. pp.25-26</span>