Battle of Kinsale
1601
An Irish army under Hugh O'Neill, marching three hundred miles in winter to relieve a besieged Spanish expedition, was broken by English cavalry outside the Munster port of Kinsale. The defeat crushed the Nine Years' War, ended Gaelic military resistance, and set the stage for the plantation of Ulster with Protestant settlers from Scotland and England.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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