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OTD 1597 news of Tyrone's proclamation in #Dungannon for the raising of 3,000 troops for 3 months. They would receive 1 month up front and be paid 12d per day. Morgan Kavanagh, a veteran of the Low Countries arrived to take up a command in the earl's army. #nineyearswar

OTD 1603 dark days for the Irish as Tyrone took refuge in the forests around Toome with just 60 men 'shifting his lodging both night and day' to evade capture. Worse, Cormac MacBaron, Tyrone's brother and possibly finest field commander submitted to Sir Henry Docwra #nineyearswar

OTD 1594 Dowdall re-edified Enniskillen & put 30 men in garrison. Castle was isolated at the end of vulnerable supply line, but assured by his spies that Hugh Maguire has 'not 8 horse and 20 foot' & all in Fermanagh loyal saving 1 or 2- Dowdall needed better spies #nineyearswar

Meanwhile near Kinsale Mountjoy received news of Tyrone's further losses while retreating north from Munster. While attempting to cross the swollen waters of the River Blackwater (Co. Cork) 'lost many of his carriages, and had some 140 of his men drowned'

I know I'm building up to the Battle of Kinsale on Christmas Eve, but if you've been following the posts, it should be clear just how much this was a close-run thing this was. For years the 'sure the Irish couldn't have really won' narrative has predominated: that is bollocks

OTD 1599 Capt Humfrey Willis proposed forts in Ulster, inc. Derry, Lifford, Armagh & Toome. His incursion into Fermanagh sparked war in 1593. Fought throughout but killed in mopping up op. summer 1602. So crucial at the start, his passing went almost unremarked #nineyearswar

OTD 1600 a reminder of the crushing financial burden of the English war in Ireland. Sir Ralph Lane signed a book of the cheque for 6 months of payments to the army in 1599, 109 pages long it amounted to £158,721 for no tangible results. By 1602 costs at £300k per annum

This information came at a price as 40% of Williams' command were killed or wounded. Williams men also discovered that 'friendly' fire isn't. Withdrawing through the mist, supporting English infantry mistook them for Tyrone's men and opened fire, inflicting further casualties

If you're looking for the lowest point for the Tudor crown in Ireland it starts around now. Senior officers reported they controlled only the large towns and the immediate environs of garrisons. The rest was Tyrone's. In a few months he marched to Cork & Kinsale unopposed

OTD 1601 As Red Hugh O'Donnell besieged Niall Garbh in Donegal Abbey, an explosion tore through the building and 'blew it into the air. Defenders were partly consumed by the fire, and partly crushed by the falling roof and walls' seeing his chance O'Donnell attacked #nineyearswar