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It was a close-run thing. As the Irish managed to clamber onto the ramparts Capt Thomas Williams challenged his troops to live and die like men or surrender 'like sheep going to the shambles' as he blasted the Irish back with cannon loaded with musket shot.

The English poured fire from both flanks with muskets which out-ranged the defenders smaller calivers. Capt. Lee was one of the officers who led the assault which saw them 'wading through to their arm holes'. 300 Irish were killed primarily MacSweeny galloglass & Scots redshanks

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

@Gallow_Glass You'll have to wait, I have a new article called 'Spouses, spies and subterfuge: the role and experience of women during the Nine Years War (1593-1603)' coming out in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (hopefully) this year

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

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 1598 The Pale stood open to Tyrone.The Rising Out (Old English militia) could not stop him and the 2k men who survived Yellow Ford were unfit as they were 'not weaponed , and they are not yet free from the fear they took at the late disaster at Armagh' #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

OTD 1599 Essex met Tyrone in private at the ford of Bellaclynthe. When Tyrone said he went to war for his faith Essex scoffed, noting his horse cared for religion as much as Tyrone. One of the few things Essex was right about. Meeting Tyrone alone was a big mistake #nineyearswar