# monaghan armagh galway

OTD 1594 Capt Henshaw fell into skirmish with Tyrone's bastard son Con. Attempting to recover a prey in assaulted on both sides by horse and 60 shot with 'diverse slain'. Crown troops ran out of ammunition and withdraw. They were lucky anyone survived

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2020-04-26

OTD 1597 Report that Tyrone and O'Donnell's meeting with Spanish at Killybeggs did not go well. Frustrated by lack of Spanish landing reported O'Donnell accused Spain of deceitfulness. Despite promises nothing but a little powder sent 'which they reckon not of'

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2020-04-09

OTD 1594 War barely started and the Crown's shopping list for arms was long
Corn powder w. lead and match appropriate 8 lasts
Corselets finished 200
Morions 500
heads for horsemans staves 200
saltpetre 500 weight
calivers 1000
muskets 600
pikes 500
halberds 100

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2020-03-28

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

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2020-03-09

OTD 1601 M'joy's assault on Tyrrell's fort rebuffed w. 14 killed 21 wounded. The position was fortified with earth and timber & protected rivers. This was the second failed attempt. MJ built boats and rafts to press the attack but Tyrrell & his men had slipped away

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2020-03-03

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

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2020-03-02

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

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2020-02-27

OTD 1601 Mountjoy's army received a bloody repulse as they stormed Capt Tyrrell's island fortress in Westmeath. 'Strong as nature could make it' and reinforced with earth and timber fortifications, the English retreated under heavy fire suffering 16 dead, 45 wounded

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2020-02-21

OTD 1594 O'Donnell planned to bring over 4,000 Scots redshanks into Loughs Foyle and Swilly. Plan fails and Scots troops have small role in war. Tyrone doesn't like using them because of indiscipline but powerful shock element missing from Irish army for rest of war

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2020-02-17

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

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2020-02-10

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

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2020-02-01

OTD 1597 As Norreys gathered forces to break through to the garrison in Tyrone suddenly relented, allowing the English to pass. The earl had deliberately drawn the English out of the west, clearing O'Donnell's path to raid all the way to suburbs

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2020-01-19

OTD (ish) 1598 Tyrone had compromised Crown security 'there is nothing done or almost concluded upon in Council [in Dublin]...which may import to the enemies, but straight-ways some of them [Tyrone] have notice & intelligence of it'-many 'intelligencers' were women

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2020-01-17

OTD 1596 Q. Elizabeth fails to understand why Tyrone & allies haven't accepted their pardons, expected it to be embraced 'with all humility and penitence'. Tyrone was stalling for time, waiting to improve his position & arrival of foreign aid; 'temporising' was key

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2020-01-08

OTD 1594 reports from Glens of Antrim that Hugh O'Donnell planing to bring over 4,000 Scots redshanks with aid of James McDonnell into Loughs Foyle and Swilly. Plan fails and Scots troops have small role in war. Tyrone doesn't like using them because of indiscipline

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2019-02-17