Jim O'Neillさんのイラストまとめ

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. With 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

5 August was a bogey date for the English in the Curlews. 1603 Lord Dunkellin took a hammering 'the vanguard whereof...showed their backs [turned & ran] the example whereof stroke such a terror in the rest as by all the force we could use we cold not hold our forces from running'

As fighting raged, Clifford's shot ran out of ammunition, forcing them to fall back to their pike. The Irish came on and closed to finish the crown army, but 'rain in such torrents' extinguished their matchcords rendering every gun useless-unbroken Clifford's men made it to Sligo

Goes to show just how charismatic and charming Tyrone could be as Mabel was 20 years his junior. However, charm did not make Tyrone a good husband and he was a less-than-loyal spouse. The marriage produced no children and Mabel died just 4 years later

OTD 1575, Two heroes of Elizabethan history , Francis Drake and John Norreys assaulted and took Sorley Boy McDonnell's castle on Rathlin Island then scoured the island putting every man, woman & child to the sword. Possibly 600 were slaughtered-Essex was well-pleased with result

Norreys had many years of experience fighting in Ulster and was not squeamish about his hands dirty. He was central to the massacre Brain O'Neill's household in 1574, where they were guests of O'Neill, and the slaughter of civilians on Rathlin Island in 1575

Conor Roe Maguire forced to join Tyrone, but was an unwilling ally & quickly defected. OTD 1600 reported from Cavan that Maguire 'is come in to the Lord Deputy (Mountjoy) offering to pull down the other Maguire (Cuconnacht) raised by Tyrone'-dynastic feuding easily exploited

Even after the devastating defeat of Tyrone & his allies at Kinsale in 1601, Mountjoy thought better of trying to force this pass in Summer campaign 1602. Rather than hammer his way to Dunagannon, Mountjoy sidestepped the defences, building Charlemont Fort a few miles downriver

OTD 1601 In the early morning darkness, M'joy's infantry assaulted across the R. Blackwater. Artillery loaded with musket balls suppressed the Irish defenders as the crown's troops entered the Irish works. After close -quarter fighting, the Irish were forced back #nineyearswar