Battle of Curlew Pass

When

15 Aug 1599

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

54.00° N, 8.31° W

Description

1599 battle

1599 battle of the Nine Years' War

The Battle of Curlew Pass was fought on 15 August 1599 during the campaign of the Earl of Essex in the Nine Years' War, between an English force under Sir Conyers Clifford and a rebel Irish force led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell. The English were ambushed and routed while marching through a pass in the Curlew Mountains, near the town of Boyle, in the west of Ireland. The English forces suffered heavy casualties.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “First Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces defeat the English”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die irischen Rebellen siegen in der Schlacht am Curlew Pass”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Victoire des Irlandais à la bataille de Curlew Mountains au Connaught”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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