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OTD 1603 dark days for the Irish as Tyrone took refuge in the forests around Toome with just 60 men 'shifting his lodging both night and day' to evade capture. Worse, Cormac MacBaron, Tyrone's brother and possibly finest field commander submitted to Sir Henry Docwra #nineyearswar

OTD 1594 Report Red Hugh O'Donnell planned to bring 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 1594 Dowdall re-edified Enniskillen & put 30 men in garrison. Castle was isolated at the end of vulnerable supply line, but assured by his spies that Hugh Maguire has 'not 8 horse and 20 foot' & all in Fermanagh loyal saving 1 or 2- Dowdall needed better spies #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

Conor Roe Maguire wanted Capt Willis appointed to him, never mind it was Willis' 1593 depredations as sheriff in Fermanagh which lit the blue touch paper of war in the first place. Willis was an appalling character but he gets his-killed in the last months of war in 1603.

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

OTD 1601 Spanish arms arrived in Killybeggs. 2 frigates landed '3,000 pikes, 2,000 calivers and 1,000 muskets, with a correspondent proportion of powder, lead and match' with 25k crowns. Tyrone decreed all who serve will get 20 shillings a month-better pay than English service

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

@_f_i_l_i @NavanCentreFort Because everything I do comes back to NYW or WW2....Navan in 1602-3, clearly still called Eamhain Mhacha because that's what Bartlett the cartographer was hearing