Battle of the Yellow Ford, 1598 – England attempts total conquest of Ireland – Nine Years’ War
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🎼 Music:
Epidemic Sound
Filmstro
📚 Sources:
Fergus Cannon – Galloglas 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior
Brendan Kane, Valerie McGowan-Doyles – Elizabeth I and Ireland
G.A. Hayes-McCoy – Irish Battles: A Military History of Ireland
Hiram Morgan – Tyrone’s Rebellion: The Outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland
James O’Neill – The Nine Years War, 1593 – 1603: O’Neill, Mountjoy, and the Military Revolution
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🚩 Due to popular request we are heading back to Ireland with the Battle of the Yellow Ford. Fought on 14 August 1598 during the Nine Years' War in Ireland, a Gaelic Irish army under Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone met the English crown expeditionary force under the command of Henry Bagenal, marshal of Ulster.
The battle greatly escalated the war. English Crown poured more men and materiel into the conflict, while more Irish lords joined O'Neill's alliance. The Nine Years' War in Ireland, previously fought mostly in Ulster, would soon become a struggle against English control over Ireland as a whole.
These types of battles are laughable when you think about the battles the Eastern Europeans had with the Ottomans at the same time. 1800 men trying to sway the fate of a country, they couldn’t take an Ottoman outhouse with such a paltry force.
Damanta na hAnglacaigh.