Earl of Essex Fails in Ireland
1599
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, crossed to Ireland with sixteen thousand men to crush the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill. Instead he negotiated an unauthorized truce, abandoned his command, and galloped back to England to burst, mud-spattered, into Elizabeth's bedchamber. The queen never forgave him, and his ruin followed within two years.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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