Jim O'Neillさんのイラストまとめ

OTD 1594 Red Hugh O'Donnell planned to bring over 4,000 Scots redshanks to L. Foyle and Swilly. Plan fails & Scots troops have small role in war. Tyrone doesn't like using them due to indiscipline but powerful shock element missing from Irish army for rest of war #nineyearswar

OTD 1597 Geffrey Fenton fulminates about using Scots in Ulster 'They are a needy beggarly people not easily expelled out of a country where they have once taken a footing'. Irish rebels will not be pulled down by Scots from Kintyre & Islands as 'dogs will not eat dogs flesh'

OTD 1595 report from Scotland that Tyrone and James MacSorley MacDonnell bought £500 of gunpowder in Glasgow and shipped to Ireland. Glasgow merchants were key to providing war material to the Irish, helped by James VI turning a blind eye for most of the war #nineyearswar

Norreys hadn't long to wait for company in the afterlife. His brother William had died campaigning in Ireland 1579, Maximilian died serving with him in Brittany. Then in 1599 his brothers Thomas and Henry died within days of each other from wounds received in Munster

OTD 1600 Recommendations made to bring over Scots 'who of all others are fit for Irish service..if good security might be had for their faithful service and safe withdrawing'. 4,000 could be shipped and well-maintained for the price of 1,000 English troops-bargain #nineyearswar

Tyrone and O'Donnell payed the good cop-bad cop routine 'O'Donnell continues as arrogant and insolent as formerly.' Tyrone was polite & accommodating but claimed his hands tied by wishes of allies. Totally stroked Queen's commissioners as Irish played for time and Spanish landing

OTD 1597 As Norreys gathered forces to break through to the garrison in Armagh, Tyrone suddenly relented, allowing English to pass. The earl had deliberately drawn the English out of Connacht, clearing Red Hugh O'Donnell's path to raid all the way to Galway suburbs #nineyearswar

Shen embezzled 100 marks of linen and household stuff to her brother 'my bringing up was far unmeete to have matched with her, saving that God had appointed it for my punishment...now in my misery is laid upon me with which patience I must bear till God shall provide otherwise'

OTD 1602 Tyrone in Dungannon after a harrowing retreat north. Many deserted to shift for themselves while others drowned in swollen rivers. Worse, many Irish took their opportunity to exact their revenge & prove their loyalty to the Crown by attacking the Ulstermen #nineyearswar

OTD 1596 Confirmation of Mabel Bagenal, Countess Tyrone's death [Tyrone's 3rd wife]. Married in a protestant service in 1591. Tyrone was anything but a doting husband. His affairs and attempts to kill her brother drove her to return to Newry where she died age 24 #nineyearswar