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OTD 1599 Sir Thomas Norreys, president of Munster, joined his brother John in the afterlife. He was speared in the neck/face in June but lingered for another 2 months. Thomas' other brother Henry, (who was shot in the leg) died of his wounds just 4 days earlier #nineyearswar

OTD 1602 Chichester took Tyrone's stronghold at Inishloughan. Held by 42 shot and 20 swordsmen, it had '2 deep ditches both compassed with strong palisades...high and thick rampeire..well flanked with bulwarks'. It had little chance against well-placed artillery #nineyearswar

@tait_clodagh @w_derham @bighappyhead Thinking goes that it was a wooden defensive tower under construction, similar structure seen in a more advanced state at Inishloughan Fort

If Tyrone had even a small number of old-style Gallowglass, the slaughter would have been much greater. But the Irish transition to the earl's modernised force meant the potentially decisive shock action of a few hundred heavily armoured infantry just wasn't available

Crown didnt' understand this wasn't about killing troops, Tyrone needed to deflect the proposed landing of large army on the Foyle. Crown forced to send new army to protect Dublin rather than threaten Tyrone's hinterlands-big picture thinking by Tyrone exploited English arrogance

He was allowed 3/4 pound powder for a musketeer and 1/2 for a caliverman on campaign and watches but not for their training. Told in no uncertain terms by Cecil that if his did not recover money from troops wages it would be 'defaulked out of his lordships [MJ's] entertainment'

OTD 1600 Mountjoy tried to lessen troops gunpowder expenses, cost of powder used deducted from pay. He wanted crown to cover the powder used on campaign, on watches 'as charging and discharging of his piece in time of watches is of necessity' and during training' #nineyearswar

While in Dungannon Fitzgarret noted Tyrone’s stores; £2,000 of gunpowder and munitions. He also reported 'Scottish men making calivers and fowling pieces' These workmen had been sent by Alexander Stewart, a merchant of Glasgow, who also facilitated Tyrone's arms shipments

Guess who wasn't doing the killing? Red Hugh O'Donnell. Maguire & Cormac MacBaron at Enniskillen, but as Crown army approached O'Donnell left to deal with a domestic issue with Scots, ordered his troops to stand down until he returned-Ford of Biscuits fought without his help

In his report to Dublin Clifford didn't mention how close his army came to annihilation. The weather had saved them but so too had Tyrone's reforms. The Irish depended on firepower not axes, a small reserve of galloglass would likely have finished Clifford- but they were gone