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OTD 1597 news of Tyrone's proclamation in #Dungannon for the raising of 3,000 troops for 3 months. They would receive 1 month up front and be paid 12d per day. Morgan Kavanagh, a veteran of the Low Countries arrived to take up a command in the earl's army. #nineyearswar

OTD 1601 Scots merchant Thomas Douglas watched a Spanish officer drill Tyrone's pikemen in Dungannon. Surprised that experienced troops didn't use tight formation the Spanish officer replied that close order would 'avail them nothing' in constricted Irish terrain #nineyearswar

The spies did manage to send quality intelligence but the Crown couldn't (or wouldn't) act on it. Report that Tyrone would take Strabane and Enniskillen was true. Also the sheriff of Monaghan, Patrick McArt Moyle was in league with Tyrone. He defected to Tyrone by end of the year

The damage was immense and many bodies proved impossible to identify as there were 'sundry headless bodies and heads without bodies that were found and not known'. It was thought that poor storage and unloading practices on the quay led to the disaster.

OTD 1596 Capt Dowdall reported Tyrone's had 'drawn the greatest part of their kern to be musketeers & their gallowglass pikes, they want no furniture neither of muskets, fowling pieces, calivers, swords, graven morions, powder and shot'..'how cometh?'-good question #nineyearswar

OTD 1597 Conyers Clifford reported Irish in Connacht 'fast tied to Tyrone and O'Donnell' and that Irish resistance was emboldened by the prospect of reinforcements from Spain. His army was short of food and munitions but noted that the Irish 'will never be subjects but by force'

OTD 1600 Outrage as reports Tyrone passed within a musket shot of the gates of Cork in broad daylight 'but not one shot discharged at them..the mayor would not suffer one shot to be made'. Also serious doubts about the 'disloyal dealings of the citizens of Limerick' #nineyearswar

OTD 1594 Bad day for Bagenal as Art MacBaron's son (Tyrone's nephew) with 400 troops stole the marshal's stud, taking them over the R. Bann. Irish threatened to burn Carrickfergus, should have made good as Carrick was key staging area for English throughout the war #nineyearswar

OTD 1595 With Tyrone in open war L. Dep Russell called for merchants to be restrained from selling gunpowder to the Irish, but hard cash trumped patriotism and merchants got rich throughout the war selling munitions to Tyrone at inflated (triple or quadruple) rates

OTD 1600 Tyrone goes all fire and brimstone on Lord Buttevant 'Your impiety to God, cruelty to your soul and body, tyranny & ingratitude both to your followers and country, are inexcusable & intolerable' Odd as Tyrone wasn't the churchiest of folk-used religion to suit own ends