Event
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Start Date
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End Date
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Event Location
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Associated Wars
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Mo.
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Day
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Year
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Mo.
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Day
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Year
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Primary
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Secondary
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The Scottish Covenanters defeat the Royalists at Brig of Dee, Aberdeen |
06 |
18 |
1639 |
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Aberdeen 1st (Brig of Dee) |
Bishops' Wars |
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The Scottish Covenanters defeat King Charles I at Newburn |
08 |
28 |
1640 |
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Newburn |
Bishops' Wars |
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King Charles I signs the Treaty of London ending Bishops' Wars |
08 |
10 |
1641 |
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Bishops' Wars |
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King Charles' weakness in Bishops' Wars emboldens Catholics who wanted reform of the Kingdom of Ireland |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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The Irish Rebellion begins with an attempted coup d'état by a small group of Irish Catholic landowners |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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They planned to seize Dublin Castle and other strongpoints around the country and then to issue demands |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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Their demands included: |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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– The free practice of the Catholic religion |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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– Equal rights for Catholics to hold public office |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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– An end to land confiscations |
08 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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The following events mark the beginning of the Irish Rebellion: |
10 |
22 |
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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– On October 22, 1641, Irish rebels surprise and capture six English forts in Ulster |
10 |
22 |
1641 |
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Six Forts in Ulster |
Irish Rebellion |
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– Felim O'Neill captures Charlemont Fort from the English |
10 |
22 |
1641 |
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Charlemont 1st |
Irish Rebellion |
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– Irish rebels attempt to seize Dublin Castle fails |
10 |
22 |
1641 |
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Dublin 1st |
Irish Rebellion |
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– O'Byrne, O'Toole and Kavanagh clans occupy Wicklow Castle |
10 |
|
1641 |
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Wicklow Castle (Siege Starts) |
Irish Rebellion |
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– The insurrection spreads to the general populace and attacks on Protestants grow from beatings to murders |
10 |
|
1641 |
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|
Irish Rebellion |
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– Irish rebels advance toward Belfast |
10 |
|
1641 |
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Irish Rebellion |
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– Irish rebels capture Armagh and Lurgan |
10 |
|
1641 |
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Armagh |
Irish Rebellion |
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– Irish rebels are driven back from Belfast by the Protestants |
10 |
|
1641 |
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Belfast 1st |
Irish Rebellion |
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– Protestants take refuge in Londonderry |
10 |
|
1641 |
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|
Irish Rebellion |
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– Irish rebels massacre Protestant settlers at Portadown |
11 |
|
1641 |
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Portadown |
Irish Rebellion |
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Felim O'Neill sieges Drogheda |
11 |
|
1641 |
03 |
10 |
1642 |
Drogheda 1st (Siege Starts) |
Irish Rebellion |
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Ormond is appointed Lieutenant-General in Ireland by King Charles |
11 |
11 |
1641 |
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|
|
|
Irish Rebellion |
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Felim O'Neill fails to capture Lisburn |
11 |
28 |
1641 |
|
|
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Lisburn |
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels ambush a Royalist relief contingent at Julianstown |
11 |
29 |
1641 |
|
|
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Julianstown |
Irish Rebellion |
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Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, takes Wicklow Castle from Irish rebels |
11 |
29 |
1641 |
|
|
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Wicklow Castle (Siege Ends) |
Irish Rebellion |
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Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, defeats the rebels at Kilcoole |
12 |
01 |
1641 |
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Kilcoole |
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels massacre the Scottish settler garrison at Augher |
12 |
|
1641 |
|
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Augher |
Irish Rebellion |
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Felim O'Neill fails to capture Castle Derg |
12 |
|
1641 |
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Castle Derg |
Irish Rebellion |
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The first English reinforcements arrive in Dublin; these are sent by Parliament |
12 |
30 |
1641 |
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|
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels unsuccessfully attack a Royalist escort at Barnesmore Gap |
01 |
01 |
1642 |
|
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Barnesmore Gap |
Irish Rebellion |
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Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, and the English defeat rebels at Swords near Dublin |
01 |
11 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Dublin 2nd (Swords) |
Irish Rebellion |
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The Irish rebels siege Coleraine |
01 |
|
1642 |
06 |
|
1642 |
Coleraine (Siege Starts) |
Irish Rebellion |
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Ormond and the English recaptures Naas from the rebels |
02 |
03 |
1642 |
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Naas |
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels slaughter an English defense corps south of Coleraine at Garvagh |
02 |
10 |
1642 |
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|
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Garvagh |
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels unsuccessfully attack Antrim |
02 |
13 |
1642 |
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|
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Antrim |
Irish Rebellion |
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Three thousand (3,000) English soldiers arrive in Dublin |
03 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels rout an English defense corps at Bundoorragh |
03 |
|
1642 |
|
|
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Bundoorragh |
Irish Rebellion |
|
The rebel siege of Drogheda ends unsuccessfully |
03 |
10 |
1642 |
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|
|
Drogheda 1st (Siege Ends) |
Irish Rebellion |
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The citizens of Galway seize an English ship and declare for the rebellion |
03 |
19 |
1642 |
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|
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Galway 1st |
Irish Rebellion |
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Nineteen hundred (1,900) English soldiers arrive in Dublin |
03 |
21 |
1642 |
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|
|
|
Irish Rebellion |
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Robert Monro arrives in Ulster with an advance party of 2,500 men from Scotland |
04 |
15 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Rebellion |
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Irish rebels unsuccessfully attempt to stop Royalist forces on a resupply mission at Kilrush |
04 |
15 |
1642 |
|
|
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Kilrush |
Irish Rebellion |
|
The Confederate Oath of Association is drafted |
05 |
10 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Irish Confederates siege St John's Castle in Limerick |
05 |
18 |
1642 |
06 |
23 |
1642 |
Limerick 1st (Siege Starts) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Laggan Army routs Felim O'Neill at Glenmaquin |
06 |
16 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Glenmaquin |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Laggan Army takes the Strabane garrison from the Confederates |
06 |
19 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Strabane |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
St John's Castle in Limerick falls to the Confederates after siege |
06 |
23 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Limerick 1st (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Laggan Army defeats Manus O'Cahan at Dungiven |
06 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Dungiven |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Laggan Army relieves the siege of Coleraine by the Confederates |
06 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Coleraine (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) more Scotch veterans arrive in Ulster |
07 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Owen Roe O'Neill returns to Ireland |
07 |
08 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Royalists siege Hull in an attempt to secure a large arsenal |
07 |
10 |
1642 |
07 |
27 |
1642 |
Hull 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Lord Montgomery unsuccessfully attacks Charlemont |
07 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 2nd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Royalists end the siege of Hull and retreated to York |
07 |
27 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Hull 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Royalists ambush a force of Parliamentarian recruits |
08 |
04 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Marshall's Elm |
1st English Civil War |
|
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, the Scottish commander arrives in Ulster |
08 |
04 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Lord Forbes attacks Galway attempting to relieve the Fort-Hill garrison |
08 |
07 |
1642 |
09 |
04 |
1642 |
Galway 2nd (Siege Starts) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Portsmouth |
08 |
10 |
1642 |
09 |
07 |
1642 |
Portsmouth (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalist block land access to the Parliamentarian port of Plymouth |
08 |
|
1642 |
01 |
|
1646 |
Plymouth (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The First English Civil War starts - Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham |
08 |
22 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
1st English Civil War |
|
Civil War in England cuts off troops, supplies, and finances for the rebellion in Ireland |
08 |
22 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Laggan Army is responsible for securing the barony of Raphoe |
08 |
22 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Raphoe |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Owen Roe O'Neill is made general of the Confederate Army for Ulster |
08 |
29 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Lord Inchiquin defeats the Confederates and secures Munster for the King |
09 |
03 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Liscarroll |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Irish Confederates siege Fort-Hill garrison in Galway |
09 |
04 |
1642 |
06 |
20 |
1643 |
Galway 2nd (Siege Continues) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians capture Portsmouth after a siege and secure a large gunpowder reserve |
09 |
07 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Portsmouth (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists and the Parliamentarians skirmish |
09 |
07 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Babylon Hill |
1st English Civil War |
|
General Leslie attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont |
09 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 3rd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
General Leslie attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont |
09 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 4th |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Prince Rupert routes the Parliamentarian cavalry and rescues Byron's convoy of silver |
09 |
23 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Powick Bridge |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert loses a skirmish to the Parliamentarians |
10 |
17 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Kings Norton |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles attempts to gain London and is blocked by Essex and the Parliamentarians |
10 |
23 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Edgehill |
1st English Civil War |
|
The first Confederate General Assembly is held at Kilkenny |
10 |
24 |
1642 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Prince Rupert loses a skirmish to the Parliamentarians |
11 |
01 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Aylesbury |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert defeats the Parliamentarians as King Charles advances on London |
11 |
12 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Brentford |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles leads his army nearly to London then backs off when Essex and the Parliamentarians block his way |
11 |
13 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Turnham Green |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians quickly capture the Farnham castle as King Charles takes his army to Oxford |
12 |
01 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Farnham Castle |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians fail to stop the Earl of Newcastle from advancing to York |
12 |
01 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Piercebridge |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Earl of Newcastle continues his advance south capturing the Parliamentarian garrison of Tadcaster |
12 |
07 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Tadcaster |
1st English Civil War |
|
Royalists attempting to advance east out of Sussex are stopped by a disciplined Parliamentarian force |
12 |
|
1642 |
|
|
|
Muster Green |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege a small Royalist garrison in southern England |
12 |
22 |
1642 |
12 |
27 |
1642 |
Chichester (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Cornwall Royalists make a weak and unsuccessful effort to siege Exeter |
12 |
|
1642 |
01 |
|
1643 |
Exeter 1st |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture a small Royalist garrison in southern England |
12 |
27 |
1642 |
|
|
|
Chichester (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Royalists forces advancing east from Cornwall defeat inexperienced Parliamentarians in a short battle |
01 |
19 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Braddock Down |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians attack and capture Leeds partially restoring the balance of power in northern England |
01 |
23 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Leeds |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Confederates are defeated by Charles Coote as the Parliamentarians withdraw from Connacht to Dublin |
02 |
05 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Rathconnel |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Brereton and the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists in north-west Cheshire |
03 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Middlewich 1st |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists decimate Thomas Preston and the Confederate Leinster Army at Ballinvegga |
03 |
18 |
1643 |
|
|
|
New Ross 1st |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Royalists defend their supply lines clashing inconclusively with the Parliamentarians in Hopton Heath |
03 |
19 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Hopton Heath |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists decimate a Parliamentarian infantry detachment returning from a diversionary tactic |
03 |
30 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Seacroft Moor |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert and the Royalists torch Camp Hill / Birmingham after being fired upon by Parliamentarians |
04 |
03 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Camp Hill |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert and the Royalists siege a small garrison in Lichfield |
04 |
08 |
1643 |
04 |
21 |
1643 |
Lichfield (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Maurice blunts the advances of Sir William Waller near the River Severn and Wales |
04 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Ripple Field |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege a Royalist garrison |
04 |
14 |
1643 |
04 |
25 |
1643 |
Reading (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert and the Royalists capture a small garrison in Lichfield |
04 |
21 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Lichfield (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians successfully capture a Royalist garrison |
04 |
25 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Reading (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians turn the tables on a Royalist attack in Devon |
04 |
25 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Sourton Down |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege the Castle of a prominent Royalist |
05 |
02 |
1643 |
05 |
08 |
1643 |
Wardour 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Robert Monro attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont |
05 |
|
1643 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 5th |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Robert Monro attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont |
05 |
|
1643 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 6th |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians successfully capture the Castle of a prominent Royalist |
05 |
08 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Wardour 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Hopton and the Royalists decimate the Parliamentarians in Cornwall |
05 |
16 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Stratton |
1st English Civil War |
|
Thomas Fairfax and the Parliamentarians attack the Royalist garrison and take prisoners for a Seacroft Moor exchange |
05 |
21 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Wakefield |
1st English Civil War |
|
Waller and the Parliamentarians siege Worcester |
05 |
29 |
1643 |
05 |
31 |
1643 |
Worcester 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Waller and the Parliamentarians end the siege Worcester and quickly retreat |
05 |
31 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Worcester 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Irish Confederate cavalry defeats a retreating Royalist infantry force at Cloughleagh |
06 |
04 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Cloghleagh |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Robert Stewart and the Laggan Army routs Owen Roe O'Neill at Clones, County Monaghan |
06 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Clones |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
John Hampden and the Parliamentarians are defeated when they pursue a Prince Rupert raiding party |
06 |
18 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Chalgrove Field |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Irish Confederates capture Fort-Hill garrison in Galway |
06 |
20 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Galway 2nd (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Earl of Newcastle and the Royalists defeat the Fairfax Parliamentarians in West Yorkshire |
06 |
30 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Adwalton Moor |
1st English Civil War |
|
Queen Henrietta Maria's escort captures a bridge from the Parliamentarians in advance of her supply convoy |
07 |
04 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Burton Bridge |
1st English Civil War |
|
Hopton and the Royalists defeat the Parliamentarians as they advance east out of Devonshire |
07 |
05 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Lansdowne |
1st English Civil War |
|
Lord Wilmot's cavalry routes Waller and his army of 5,000 Parliamentarians |
07 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Roundway Down |
1st English Civil War |
|
The victory of the Royalists at Roundway Down effectively isolates the Parliamentarian garrison of Exeter in Devon |
07 |
13 |
1643 |
09 |
04 |
1643 |
Exeter 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Charles Cavendish and the Royalists siege Gainsborough in Lincolnshire |
07 |
15 |
1643 |
07 |
28 |
1643 |
Gainsborough (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert and the Royalists storm and capture the port city of Bristol |
07 |
26 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Bristol 1st |
1st English Civil War |
|
Cromwell defeats Cavendish at the siege of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire |
07 |
28 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Gainsborough (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Owen Roe O'Neill defeats Charles Moore at Portlester |
08 |
07 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Portlester |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
King Charles sieges Gloucester in the South-west |
08 |
10 |
1643 |
09 |
05 |
1643 |
Gloucester (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Earl of Newcastle sieges Hull |
09 |
02 |
1643 |
10 |
12 |
1643 |
Hull 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Exeter surrenders to Prince Maurice and the Royalists |
09 |
04 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Exeter 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles ends the siege Gloucester in the South-west |
09 |
05 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Gloucester (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists and the Confederates agree to a ceasefire - The Cessation of Arms |
09 |
15 |
1643 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Prince Rupert attacks the Earl of Essex as he returns to London from relieving Gloucester |
09 |
18 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Aldbourne Chase |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles unsuccessfully attempts to stop the Earl of Essex's army from reaching London |
09 |
20 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Newbury 1st |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Solemn League and Covenant is signed by Parliament |
09 |
25 |
1643 |
|
|
|
|
1st English Civil War |
|
The Laggan Army "refuses" the Covenant and the Cessation of Arms |
09 |
|
1643 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Earl of Manchester defeats a relieving force near Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire |
10 |
11 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Winceby |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Earl of Newcastle ends the siege of Hull |
10 |
12 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Hull 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
A Parliamentarian garrison stops Prince Rupert in a skirmish at a bridge in Olney |
11 |
04 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Olney |
1st English Civil War |
|
Waller and the Parliamentarians siege Basing House |
11 |
06 |
1643 |
11 |
15 |
1643 |
Basing House 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists fail to capture Heptonstall in Yorkshire |
11 |
|
1643 |
|
|
|
Heptonstall |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists siege Wardour Castle |
11 |
|
1643 |
03 |
|
1644 |
Wardour 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Waller and the Parliamentarians end the siege of Basing House when the troops revolt |
11 |
15 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Basing House 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
A Royalist detachment fails to capture a bridge over the River Adur in West Sussex |
12 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Bramber Bridge |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians execute a surprise attack on the Royalist winter garrison in Hampshire |
12 |
13 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Alton |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Ordinance to enact the Cessation of Arms is approved |
12 |
15 |
1643 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Arundel Castle |
12 |
19 |
1643 |
01 |
06 |
1644 |
Arundel (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists defeat Brereton and the Parliamentarians in a battle for Cheshire |
12 |
26 |
1643 |
|
|
|
Middlewich 2nd |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists surrender Arundel Castle after an eighteen day siege |
01 |
06 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Arundel (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Sir Thomas Fairfax in command of a Parliamentarian relief force defeats Lord Byron and the Royalists |
01 |
25 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Nantwich |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalist garrison of Newark is sieged by the Parliamentarians |
02 |
|
1644 |
03 |
21 |
1644 |
Newark 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Scot Covenanters conduct a prolonged siege of Newcastle |
02 |
03 |
1644 |
10 |
27 |
1644 |
Newcastle 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians siege Lathom House in Lancashire |
02 |
27 |
1644 |
05 |
27 |
1644 |
Lathom House 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists capture Wardour Castle |
03 |
|
1644 |
|
|
|
Wardour 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Parliament appoints Major-General Robert Monro commander-in-chief of its forces in Ireland |
03 |
09 |
1644 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Prince Rupert and the Royalists relieve the siege of their Newark garrison |
03 |
21 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Newark 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Scot Covenanters and the Royalists face-off inconclusively near Newcastle |
03 |
24 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Boldon Hill |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
A Parliamentarian relief force is defeated and turned back at Stourbridge |
03 |
26 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Stourbridge Heath |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists fail to stop the westward expansion of the Parliamentarians into Hampshire |
03 |
29 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Cheriton |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Fairfaxes and the Parliamentarians capture the strategic garrison of Selby in Yorkshire |
04 |
11 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Selby |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists siege the port city of Lyme Regis |
04 |
20 |
1644 |
06 |
16 |
1644 |
Lyme Regis (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians conduct a prolonged siege of York |
04 |
22 |
1644 |
07 |
16 |
1644 |
York (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians siege the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire |
05 |
03 |
1644 |
05 |
06 |
1644 |
Lincoln (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire |
05 |
06 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Lincoln (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Robert Munro and the Parliamentarians seize Belfast |
05 |
14 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Belfast 2nd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Lathom House in Lancashire |
05 |
27 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Lathom House 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Oxford in an attempt to capture King Charles |
05 |
27 |
1644 |
06 |
04 |
1644 |
Oxford 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Prince Rupert attacks the city of Bolton and allegedly slaughters defenders and inhabitants |
05 |
28 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Bolton |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Basing House for a second time |
06 |
04 |
1644 |
11 |
15 |
1644 |
Basing House 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Oxford |
06 |
04 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Oxford 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Earl of Denbigh and the Parliamentarians siege Dudley Castle in the West Midlands |
06 |
05 |
1644 |
06 |
12 |
1644 |
Tipton Green (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists clash with a Parliamentarian force ending the siege of Dudley Castle in the West Midlands |
06 |
12 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Tipton Green (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists end the siege of the port city of Lyme Regis |
06 |
16 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Lyme Regis (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture the Oswestry garrison in Shropshire |
06 |
22 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Oswestry |
1st English Civil War |
|
Sir William Waller and the Parliamentarian army fail to capture King Charles |
06 |
29 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Cropredy Bridge |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists decisively killing 4,000 and taking 1,500 prisoners |
07 |
02 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Marston Moor |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Royalists surrender York after the defeat at Marston Moor |
07 |
16 |
1644 |
|
|
|
York (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Inchiquin abandons the Royalist cause and declares for Parliament |
07 |
17 |
1644 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Standoff between Monro's Parliamentarians and the Confederates of Owen O'Neill and the Earl of Castlehaven |
07 |
|
1644 |
|
|
|
County Meath |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians track and defeat the Royalists on a recruitment trip in Lancashire |
08 |
20 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Ormskirk |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles corners and defeats the Earl of Essex and the Parliamentarians in Cornwall |
08 |
21 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Lostwithiel |
1st English Civil War |
|
Scottish Royalists attempting to start a revolution defeat a Scot government force |
09 |
01 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Tippermuir |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Lord Byron and the Royalists siege Montgomery Castle in Wales |
09 |
08 |
1644 |
09 |
18 |
1644 |
Montgomery (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force and sack Aberdeen; the city is abandoned to the Covenanters |
09 |
13 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Aberdeen 2nd |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians defeat Lord Byron and break the siege of Montgomery Castle in Wales |
09 |
18 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Montgomery (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians begin a prolonged siege of Chester in Cheshire |
09 |
20 |
1644 |
02 |
03 |
1646 |
Chester (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset |
09 |
23 |
1644 |
12 |
14 |
1644 |
Taunton 1st (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Carlisle in Cumbria |
10 |
|
1644 |
06 |
25 |
1645 |
Carlisle (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians successfully block King Charles from advancing on London |
10 |
27 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Newbury 2nd |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists at Newcastle accept terms after a prolonged siege by the Scot Covenanters |
10 |
27 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Newcastle 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Basing House for a second time |
11 |
15 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Basing House 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Cessation of Arms is renewed |
12 |
01 |
1644 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Colonel Rawstorne and the Royalists surrender Lathom House in Lancashire |
12 |
02 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Lathom House 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists end the siege of Taunton in Somerset |
12 |
14 |
1644 |
|
|
|
Taunton 1st (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Inchiquin enters into a short truce with the Confederates |
12 |
|
1644 |
04 |
10 |
1645 |
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Newark |
01 |
|
1645 |
02 |
|
1645 |
Newark 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force at Inverlochy |
02 |
02 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Inverlochy |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Newark |
02 |
|
1645 |
|
|
|
Newark 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians begin a prolonged siege of a Royalist manor |
02 |
|
1645 |
03 |
28 |
1646 |
High Ercall Hall (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists capture the port of Weymouth in Dorset |
02 |
09 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Weymouth 1st |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire |
02 |
18 |
1645 |
07 |
25 |
1645 |
Scarborough Castle (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians recapture Weymouth in Dorset |
02 |
27 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Weymouth 2nd |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset for the second time |
03 |
11 |
1645 |
05 |
10 |
1645 |
Taunton 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Thomas Preston and the Irish Confederates capture Duncannon from English Parliamentarians |
03 |
18 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Duncannon |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The truce between Inchiquin and the Confederates ends |
04 |
10 |
1645 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force in the highlands |
05 |
09 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Auldearn |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Royalists end the second siege of Taunton in Somerset |
05 |
10 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Taunton 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset for the third time |
05 |
12 |
1645 |
07 |
09 |
1645 |
Taunton 3rd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Oxford in an attempt to capture King Charles |
05 |
22 |
1645 |
06 |
05 |
1645 |
Oxford 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles captures Leicester but incurs heavy losses |
05 |
30 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Leicester |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Oxford |
06 |
05 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Oxford 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Sir Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians decimate King Charles and the Royalists |
06 |
14 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Naseby |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture Carlisle in Cumbria after a siege |
06 |
25 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Carlisle (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Scottish Royalists defeat pursuing Scot government forces |
07 |
02 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Alford |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians siege Lathom House in Lancashire |
07 |
|
1645 |
12 |
02 |
1645 |
Lathom House 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians and Laggan Army led by Charles Coote capture Sligo |
07 |
08 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Sligo 1st |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Royalists end the third siege of Taunton in Somerset |
07 |
09 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Taunton 3rd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Sir Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, and the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalist army in the West |
07 |
10 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Langport |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire |
07 |
25 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Scarborough Castle (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force led by William Baillie |
08 |
15 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Kilsyth |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Prince Rupert surrenders the important city and port of Bristol to the Parliamentarians |
08 |
23 |
1645 |
09 |
10 |
1645 |
Bristol 2nd |
1st English Civil War |
|
Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters defeat the Scottish Royalists |
09 |
13 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Philiphaugh |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
King Charles' cavalry gets surrounded and defeated while attempting to end the siege of Chester in Cheshire |
09 |
24 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Rowton Heath |
1st English Civil War |
|
Papal Nuncio Rinuccini arrives at Kenmare |
10 |
11 |
1645 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Cromwell attacks, loots and burns down Basing House slaughtering the defenders |
10 |
12 |
1645 |
10 |
14 |
1645 |
Basing House 3rd |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Irish Connaught Army fails to capture Sligo from the Parliamentarians; the Archbishop of Tuam is killed |
10 |
17 |
1645 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians quash a Royalist effort to relieve Chester |
11 |
01 |
1645 |
|
|
|
Denbigh Green |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Newark |
11 |
|
1645 |
05 |
|
1646 |
Newark 3rd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Plymouth is no longer blockaded as the war ends |
01 |
|
1646 |
|
|
|
Plymouth (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians and Cromwell conduct a preemptive attack on the Royalists in Devon |
01 |
09 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Bovey Heath |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians capture Chester in Cheshire after a 16 month siege |
02 |
03 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Chester (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians confront and defeat Royalists in Devon |
02 |
16 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Torrington |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians intercept and defeat Royalist recruits on their way to Oxford |
03 |
21 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Stow-on-the-Wold |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Confederate Supreme Council signs a peace treaty (First Ormond Peace Treaty) with Ormond and the Royalists |
03 |
28 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians capture a fortified manor after a long siege |
03 |
28 |
1646 |
|
|
|
High Ercall Hall (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians siege Oxford |
05 |
01 |
1646 |
06 |
25 |
1646 |
Oxford 3rd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
King Charles orders the town to surrender when the war ends |
05 |
|
1646 |
|
|
|
Newark 3rd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army - The First English Civil War ends |
05 |
05 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
1st English Civil War |
|
The Marquis of Huntly captures Aberdeen from the Covenanters for King Charles |
05 |
14 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Aberdeen 3rd |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Alasdair Mac Colla leads Clan Campbell in a victory over Clan MacDonald |
05 |
|
1646 |
|
|
|
Lagganmore |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians siege Worcester |
05 |
21 |
1646 |
07 |
23 |
1646 |
Worcester 2nd (Siege Starts) |
1st English Civil War |
|
Owen O'Neill defeats Robert Munro's Parliamentarian forces |
06 |
05 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Benburb |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians take possession of Oxford |
06 |
25 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Oxford 3rd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
General Preston and the Confederates defeat the Parliamentarians and captures Roscommon Castle |
07 |
10 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Roscommon Castle |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
General Preston and the Confederates defeats the Parliamentarians and captures Bunratty Castle |
07 |
12 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Bunratty Castle |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians take possession of Worcester |
07 |
23 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Worcester 2nd (Siege Ends) |
1st English Civil War |
|
The Ormond Peace is proclaimed in Dublin |
07 |
30 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Archbishop Rinuccini denounces the Ormond Peace |
08 |
12 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Rinuccini pronounces a sentence of excommunication on all those who support the Ormond Peace |
09 |
02 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Rinuccini and the Confederate military ousts the Confederate Supreme Council |
09 |
15 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Rinuccini and the Catholic clergy appoint a new Supreme Council at Kilkenny |
09 |
26 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Owen O'Neill and Thomas Preston siege Royalist Dublin under the command of Ormond |
09 |
27 |
1646 |
11 |
15 |
1646 |
Dublin 3rd (Siege Starts) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Confederate siege of Dublin under the command of Ormond and the Royalists ends |
11 |
15 |
1646 |
|
|
|
Dublin 3rd (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Parliament enacts an ordinance to void the Cessation of Arms |
12 |
14 |
1646 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters hunt down and defeat Alasdair Mac Colla |
05 |
24 |
1647 |
|
|
|
Rhunahaorine Moss |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters attack then slaughter 300 MacDougall Highlanders |
06 |
|
1647 |
|
|
|
Dunaverty |
1st English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Ormond hands Dublin over to Michael Jones and the Parliament Army |
07 |
28 |
1647 |
|
|
|
Dublin 4th |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Parliamentarians decimate Thomas Preston's Confederate Leinster army in the field |
08 |
08 |
1647 |
|
|
|
Dungan's Hill |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Inchiquin captures and then sacks the Confederates at the Rock of Cashel |
09 |
15 |
1647 |
|
|
|
Cashel |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Laggan Army refuses to muster to support Coote in an offensive against the Confederates in Connacht |
11 |
|
1647 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Inchiquin decimates the Confederate forces commanded by Viscount Taaffe at Knocknanuss |
11 |
13 |
1647 |
|
|
|
Knocknanuss |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Charles I signs the Engagement Agreement with the Scots |
12 |
26 |
1647 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Inchiquin declares for King Charles and joins the Royalist efforts |
04 |
03 |
1648 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
The Parliamentarians put down a revolt of former soldiers |
05 |
08 |
1648 |
|
|
|
St. Fagans |
2nd English Civil War |
|
The Confederate Council signs the Treaty of Dungarvan with Inchiquin |
05 |
20 |
1648 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Oliver Cromwell sieges rebellious Parliamentarian soldiers at Pembroke Castle in Wales |
05 |
31 |
1648 |
07 |
11 |
1648 |
Pembroke (Siege Starts) |
2nd English Civil War |
|
Sir Thomas Fairfax puts down a Royalist partisan revolt in Kent |
06 |
01 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Maidstone |
2nd English Civil War |
|
Colonel George Twisleton and the Parliamentarians put down a Royalist revolt in North Wales |
06 |
05 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Y Dalar Hir |
2nd English Civil War |
|
Owen O'Neill declares war on the Confederate Council and leads an army against Kilkenny |
06 |
11 |
1648 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Royalists partisans take refuge in Colchester; Parliamentarians siege the town |
06 |
12 |
1648 |
08 |
28 |
1648 |
Colchester (Siege Starts) |
2nd English Civil War |
|
The Engagers and the Kirk Party fight an inconclusive battle in Scotland |
06 |
12 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Mauchline Muir |
Scotland - Civil Issues |
|
Owen O'Neill pillages Leinster and harasses the Confederates and Protestants |
06 |
|
1648 |
09 |
|
1648 |
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Oliver Cromwell successfully captures rebellious Parliamentarian soldiers at Pembroke Castle in Wales |
07 |
11 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Pembroke (Siege Ends) |
2nd English Civil War |
|
The Parliamentarians defeat the Scottish "Engagers" at Preston in England |
08 |
17 |
1648 |
08 |
19 |
1648 |
Preston |
2nd English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
The Parliamentarians move to eliminate any with Royalists leanings in Ireland |
08 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Royalists partisans surrender Colchester to the Parliamentarians after the defeat of the Royalists at Preston |
08 |
28 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Colchester (Siege Ends) |
2nd English Civil War |
|
The pillage of Leinster by Owen O'Neill ends |
09 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
|
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Supporters of the Kirk Party march on Edinburgh and capture the city |
09 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
Whiggamore Raid |
Scotland - Civil Issues |
|
The Engagers defeat the Kirk Party at a battle in Scotland |
09 |
12 |
1648 |
|
|
|
Stirling |
Scotland - Civil Issues |
|
Monck commands a Parliamentarian Army and takes Belfast from the Royalists |
09 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
Belfast 3rd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Monck commands a Parliamentarian Army and takes Carrickfergus from the Royalists |
09 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
Carrickfergus 1st |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Coote and the Parliamentarians take Londonderry from the Laggan Army |
12 |
|
1648 |
|
|
|
Londonderry 1st |
Irish Confederate Wars |
|
Ormond and the Royalists ally with Inchiquin and the Confederate Council against the Parliamentarians |
01 |
17 |
1649 |
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Irish Confederate Wars |
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King Charles I is executed |
01 |
30 |
1649 |
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2nd English Civil War |
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Royalist clans in northern Scotland occupy Inverness for a short while |
02 |
22 |
1649 |
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Inverness 1st |
Scotland - Civil Issues |
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Rinuccini leaves Ireland |
02 |
23 |
1649 |
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Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Laggan Army sieges the Parliamentarians in Londonderry |
03 |
28 |
1649 |
08 |
07 |
1649 |
Londonderry 2nd (Siege Starts) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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Owen O'Neill and the Parliamentarians agree to an armistice to fight the Royalists |
05 |
|
1649 |
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Irish Confederate Wars |
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England becomes a Commonwealth |
05 |
19 |
1649 |
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2nd English Civil War |
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Confederate and Irish Royalists siege Dublin held by Michael Jones and the Parliamentarians |
06 |
19 |
1649 |
08 |
02 |
1649 |
Dublin 5th (Siege Starts) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Scots join the Laggan Army and use their artillery to block resupply of Londonderry by mean of the River Foyle |
07 |
|
1649 |
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Londonderry 2nd (Siege Continues) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Marquis of Clanricarde and the Royalists capture Sligo in Connacht |
07 |
09 |
1649 |
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Sligo 2nd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Parliamentarians surrender Drogheda to Inchiquin and the Royalists |
07 |
11 |
1649 |
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Drogheda 2nd |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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The Parliamentarians surrender Dundalk to Inchiquin and the Royalists |
07 |
24 |
1649 |
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Dundalk |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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Confederate and Irish Royalists end the siege of Dublin when the Parliamentarians decimate Ormond at Rathmines |
08 |
02 |
1649 |
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Dublin 5th (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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Michael Jones and the Parliamentarians decimates Ormond and the Confederates near Dublin |
08 |
02 |
1649 |
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Dublin 6th (Rathmines) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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Owen O'Neill relieves Londonderry from siege by the Laggan Army and the Scots |
08 |
07 |
1649 |
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Londonderry 2nd (Siege Ends) |
Irish Confederate Wars |
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Cromwell's army arrives in Dublin |
08 |
15 |
1649 |
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Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell sieges Drogheda |
09 |
03 |
1649 |
09 |
11 |
1649 |
Drogheda 3rd (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell captures Drogheda and gives little quarter to the inhabitants |
09 |
11 |
1649 |
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|
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Drogheda 3rd (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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The Commonwealth Army led by Venables takes Belfast from Lord Montgomery and the Royalists |
10 |
01 |
1649 |
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|
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Belfast 4th |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell storms the port of Wexford |
10 |
02 |
1649 |
10 |
11 |
1649 |
Wexford (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell captures the port of Wexford |
10 |
11 |
1649 |
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|
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Wexford (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell captures New Ross |
10 |
19 |
1649 |
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|
|
New Ross 2nd |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Owen O'Neill agrees to join forces with Ormond against Cromwell |
10 |
20 |
1649 |
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|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Inchiquin fails to stop Nelson and the Parliamentarians from advancing south |
11 |
01 |
1649 |
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|
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Arklow |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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The Parliamentarians capture southern ports; Munster rejects Inchiquin and accepts the Parliamentarians |
11 |
|
1649 |
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|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Cromwell sieges the port city of Waterford |
11 |
24 |
1649 |
12 |
02 |
1649 |
Waterford 1st (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell gives up the siege of the port city of Waterford when winter begins |
12 |
02 |
1649 |
|
|
|
Waterford 1st (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Parliamentarians advance north and rout the Royalists |
12 |
06 |
1649 |
|
|
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Lisnagarvey |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Parliamentarians take Carrickfergus from the Royalists |
12 |
13 |
1649 |
|
|
|
Carrickfergus 2nd |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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The Laggan Army is useless as a fighting force due to divisions within the ranks |
|
|
1649 |
|
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|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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The Laggan Army disbands in late 1649 |
|
|
1649 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Lord Broghill and Henry Cromwell defeat Lord Inchiquin near Cork |
03 |
|
1650 |
|
|
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Mallow |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Cromwell sieges Kilkenny |
03 |
22 |
1650 |
03 |
28 |
1650 |
Kilkenny (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell captures Kilkenny |
03 |
28 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Kilkenny (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell and the Protestant Royalists enter into a treaty - the Ulster Scots and Laggan Army also accept the treaty |
04 |
26 |
1650 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Covenanters clans in far northern Scotland defeat Scottish Royalists |
04 |
27 |
1650 |
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|
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Carbisdale |
Scotland - Civil Issues |
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Cromwell's army begins the siege / attack of Clonmel |
04 |
27 |
1650 |
05 |
18 |
1650 |
Clonmel (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell's army surrounds Tecroghan Castle and begins a siege of the Confederate stronghold |
05 |
|
1650 |
06 |
25 |
1650 |
Tecroghan (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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The Parliamentarians decimate a Confederate relief force headed for Clonmel |
05 |
10 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Macroom |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Cromwell's army takes a beating but takes control of Clonmel after the Royalists escape |
05 |
18 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Clonmel (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Cromwell returns to England; Ireton takes command in Ireland |
05 |
27 |
1650 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Castlehaven and the Confederates fail to end the siege of Tecroghan Castle |
06 |
19 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Tecroghan (Siege Continues) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
The Confederate Army of Ulster is crushed by Coote and ceases to be a fighting force |
06 |
21 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Scarrifholis |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
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Sir Robert Talbot surrenders Tecroghan Castle to Cromwell's army |
06 |
25 |
1650 |
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|
|
Tecroghan (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Ireton begins a siege and blockade of Waterford |
07 |
|
1650 |
08 |
06 |
1650 |
Waterford 2nd (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Preston surrenders Waterford to Ireton |
08 |
06 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Waterford 2nd (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Felim O'Neill surrenders Charlemont to Coote and Venables |
08 |
14 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Charlemont 7th |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Cromwell and the English defeat David Leslie and the Scots |
09 |
03 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Dunbar |
3rd English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
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Clanricarde and the Confederate Army of Connacht are decimated by Axtell |
10 |
25 |
1650 |
|
|
|
Meelick Island |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Ormond and Inchiquin leave Ireland |
12 |
11 |
1650 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Ireton's troops cross the Shannon |
06 |
02 |
1651 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
The siege of Limerick is reinstated by Ireton and the Parliamentarians |
06 |
19 |
1651 |
10 |
27 |
1651 |
Limerick 2nd (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Athlone is surrendered to Coote and the Parliamentarians |
06 |
18 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Athlone |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
John Lambert and the English outflank and defeat the Scots |
07 |
20 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Inverkeithing |
3rd English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Lord Broghill routs an Irish Confederate relief force led by Muskerry |
07 |
26 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Knocknaclashy |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Galway is loosely sieged by Coote after the fall of Athlone |
08 |
|
1651 |
05 |
12 |
1652 |
Galway 3rd (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
The Parliamentarians fail to hold back Charles II and his Scottish supporters at the River Mersey |
08 |
13 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Warrington Bridge |
3rd English Civil War |
|
The English decimate the Earl of Derby and reinforcements for the campaign of Charles II |
08 |
25 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Wigan Lane |
3rd English Civil War |
|
The English capture the bridge at Upton helping to facilitate the battle to capture Worcester |
08 |
28 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Upton |
3rd English Civil War |
|
George Monck attacks and captures Dundee inflicting great damage on the defenders |
08 |
29 |
1651 |
09 |
01 |
1651 |
Dundee |
3rd English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Cromwell defeats Charles II decisively ending the English Civil Wars |
09 |
03 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Worcester 3rd |
3rd English Civil War |
Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms
|
Limerick surrenders to Ireton and the Parliamentarians |
10 |
27 |
1651 |
|
|
|
Limerick 2nd (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Ireton dies of the plague |
11 |
26 |
1651 |
|
|
|
|
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Galway surrenders after being blockaded / besieged for several months |
05 |
12 |
1652 |
|
|
|
Galway 3rd (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Clanricarde takes refuge in Ballyshannon |
05 |
16 |
1652 |
06 |
28 |
1652 |
Ballyshannon (Siege Starts) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
Clanricarde surrenders Ballyshannon |
06 |
28 |
1652 |
|
|
|
Ballyshannon (Siege Ends) |
Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland |
|
The Scot Highlanders stop an English force from attacking Glencairn's army |
02 |
10 |
1654 |
|
|
|
Tullich |
Glencairn's Rising in Scotland |
|
The Scot Highlanders flee at the onset of the battle - the Highland uprising ends |
07 |
19 |
1654 |
|
|
|
Dalnaspidal |
Glencairn's Rising in Scotland |
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