. Historical portraits ... although his task was made harder by thefact that Philip did actually send the long-expected assistance in theshape of 4,000 Spaniards under Don Juan dAquila, who landed atKinsale. Tyrone, whom Mountjoy was already pressing hard inUlster, hastened southwards to effect a junction with his allies ; butMountjoy was before him, and utterly defeated him in 1601 outside i88 HUGH ONEILL Kinsale, whereon the Spaniards were obhged to surrender. Tyroneescaped and kept up a desultory warfare without a chance of successtill 1603, when he surrendered on April 3, in ignorance of t
. Historical portraits ... although his task was made harder by thefact that Philip did actually send the long-expected assistance in theshape of 4,000 Spaniards under Don Juan dAquila, who landed atKinsale. Tyrone, whom Mountjoy was already pressing hard inUlster, hastened southwards to effect a junction with his allies ; butMountjoy was before him, and utterly defeated him in 1601 outside i88 HUGH ONEILL Kinsale, whereon the Spaniards were obhged to surrender. Tyroneescaped and kept up a desultory warfare without a chance of successtill 1603, when he surrendered on April 3, in ignorance of the factthat Elizabeth had died a few days before. He then paid a visit toLondon and was well received by James, but again tried in 1607 toraise Ulster, this time quite in vain; and so, in company with theEarl of Tyrconnel, he fled to France and ultimately to Rome, wherehe died in 1616. He was by far the most dangerous Irish rebel inElizabeths reign, for he was a man of some education, and taughthis troops to use
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