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OTD 1600 Mountjoy got tactical in the Moyry Pass as he sent 2 infantry regiments to assault the Irish trenches on the left flank. A demonstration by 5 regts at the barricades tried to draw off the Irish but the attack was strongly rebuffed by Tyrone's counterattack #nineyearswar

Fire poured in on the English from front & flank at point blank range. William Godolphins horse's brains 'sparkled into his face' as they were blown out. MJ troops took 2 barricades but after 4 hours of brutal fighting the battered English withdrew with 55 killed and 140 wounded

@jman0war Lordships and land ownership

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

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

OTD 1596 Feagh MacHugh O'Byrne captured the English fort at Ballinacorr, Co. Wicklow. After 5 hour firefight the Irish stormed the rampart with ladders & scaling hooks. Taking refuge within the wooden castle the garrison surrendered after near suffocating with smoke #nineyearswar

A large trace italienne rampart was built to accommodate an expansion of the garrison but the first troops occupied MacBaron's island/crannog. Note the cadgehouses and plank reinforced wattle walls with firing loops. Though strongly fortified the position fell without resistance

OTD 1607 Hugh O'Neill with Rory O'Donnell, their families and adherents left Rathmullan for Europe never to return and what has become known as the Flight of the Earls. O'Neill never stopped trying to return but he would die exiled in Rome 9 years later #nineyearswar

OTD 1599 Essex marched for Ulster- 'I am even now putting my foot into the stirrup, to go to the rendezvous at the Navan & from thence I will draw the army so far, & to do as much as duty will warrant me & God enable me'-loving the enthusiasm (spoiler-it won't end well for Essex)