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The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War (Irish: Cogadh na hAon-déag mBliana), took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms , a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland , England and Scotland – all ruled by Charles I .
July, Irish general Owen Roe O'Neill returns to Ireland, landing at Raphoe, Donegal to help the Catholic cause. Thomas Preston, another veteran of the Spanish army, lands at Wexford. August 22, the English Civil War breaks out between the King and Parliament. English forces in Ireland split along these lines. September 3, Battle of Liscarroll ...
January 20–March 18 – Siege of Duncannon: Confederate general Thomas Preston takes Duncannon. April 23 (Saint George's Day) – English Civil War: one hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.
The siege of Duncannon took place in 1645, during the Irish Confederate Wars. An Irish Catholic Confederate army under Thomas Preston besieged and successfully took the town of Duncannon in County Wexford from an English Parliamentarian garrison. The siege was the first conflict in Ireland in which mortars were utilized.
The first and most pressing reason was an alliance signed in 1649 between the Irish Confederate Catholics and Charles II, proclaimed King of Ireland in January 1649. This allowed for Royalist troops to be sent to Ireland and put the Irish Confederate Catholic troops under the command of Royalist officers led by James Butler, Earl of Ormonde.
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 ...
The Sack of Wexford took place from 2 to 11 October 1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, part of the 1641–1653 Irish Confederate Wars. English Commonwealth forces under Oliver Cromwell stormed the town after negotiations broke down, killing most of the Irish Confederate and Royalist garrison.
Irish Confederate Wars - Conflict in Ireland from 1641-1653. Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Rebellion by Irish Catholics. Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Conquest of Ireland led by Oliver Cromwell from 1649-1653. English Civil Wars - Series of conflicts over the rule of England which included combatants from Scotland and Ireland as well.