Jim O'Neillさんのイラストまとめ

OTD 1598 The commander of the Blackwater fort, Capt Williams was not the kind of guy to sit and take it. Slipping out of the fort, he captured 18 of Tyrone's mares 'which will serve him & his company a good time'- with horseflesh back on the menu fort could hold out a bit longer

Names may give some idea to how some were considered. Scipio was the roman general who finally defeated Carthage (Norreys didn't come close) and Canaan was noted in the Book of Joshua as one of the nations to be conquered by the Israelites

OTD 1650 Sir Charles Coote's parliamentarian army opened siege around Charlemont Fort, Co Armagh. Phelim O'Neill commands garrison of 150 men. Artillery was brought to bear against the works but the fort was a tough nut to crack & took 6 weeks to make an assailable breach

Also check out the size of these things compared to relatively modern bullets, one on the left id 17thC full bore musket, right is a US 30-06 from WW2. Shot is bigger but muzzle velocity c. 475m per sec, 30-06 muzzle velocity c. 807 m per sec

Alas this was not to be. At the last minute Philip changed the plan [WTF!] and ordered the armada to Brittany to seize Brest, infuriating the expeditions commander. The ships sailed north 25 Oct but a storm devastated the fleet which lost over 30 ships and thousands of men

Arms and munitions also coming in from England, OTD 1597 report that Tyrone shipped 'great provisions of lead for bullets, muskets, morions, head-pieces, swords, and daggers' via the port of Liverpool. A merchant called Harcles provided 'all the lead for the north of Ireland'

The fort was reworked from 1620-22 by Toby Caulfield into its more familiar design with 4 angle bastions, and the 3 storey governor's house, which withstood repeated sieges but was burned by the IRA on 30 July 1920. Reported they thought it was going to be re-used as a garrison

OTD 1599 Essex leaves Askeaton but was engaged at Finniterstown. The Irish attacked the column, trying to force in the English wings of shot, but in 8 hours the crown army pushed through to Croom Castle. Capt Jennings killed and Sir Henry Norreys shot in the leg #nineyearswar

Now were getting technical. Radial striations on one hemisphere of pistol/carbine ball evidence of firing marks made by ignition of black powder charge facing that side of the shot...pushing limits of my photographic skills

Removed from Carrickfergus, in May 1600 he's clear how to wage this war 'It is famine not the sword that must reduce this country...making daily roads into their countries, spoiling their cattle and killing all that are found' [thats in the manuscripts edited from the calendars]