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🚩 Due to popular request we are heading back to Ireland with the Battle of the Yellow Ford. Fought on 14 August 1598 during the Nine Years' War in Ireland, a Gaelic Irish army under Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone met the English crown expeditionary force under the command of Henry Bagenal, marshal of Ulster.
The battle greatly escalated the war. English Crown poured more men and materiel into the conflict, while more Irish lords joined O'Neill's alliance. The Nine Years' War in Ireland, previously fought mostly in Ulster, would soon become a struggle against English control over Ireland as a whole.

As an Irishman it’s great to see our history being told on a huge channel such as yours, if only our education on our own history was as good as the video ye all produced

Irish archaeologist and historian from Tyrone here. Great video, the Battle of the Yellow Ford is known as Hugh O’Neill's greatest victory. Just a few pointers for the period. The Gaelic (not gallic) leaders were known as lords rather than (chieftains) which has come to the attention of modern Irish historians as a possible derogatory term used by the English against foreign peoples.

Also, it is debated whether the Nine Years War can be called a (rebellion) of the Irish in the first place, as the English crown had never militarily controlled Tir Eoghain and the other Gaelic lordships in Ulster until after the defeat of Hugh O’Neill and the Flight of the Earls in 1607. Keep up the great work! One of the best history channels on YouTube.

Thomas Percy sounds like this type of MMO player that runs from one fight to another without waiting for a healer to be ready and then blames the healer for not doing his job 😂

The Battle Of The Yellow Ford took place partially on my uncle and aunt’s farm. He has found pike heads and sundry over the years. The lane at the back of their land was once a principal road into Tyrone. They live near Blackwater Town. Bagnall’s sword was found in the area some years ago.

I’m so glad you’re covering Irish history, it’s criminally under looked

Percy : No one can possibly match my incompetence
Soldier : Hold my slow burning match ;)

Great stuff. And excellent point about the Gallowglass. O'Neill modernized to the extent that the English had to copy him to stay in contention. But if he had've kept the Gallowglass quite a few of his victories would have been total annihilations. Look what the Gallowglass did at Curlew Pass for example. Also, for anyone interested in the wider context and details of the Nine Years War, James O'Neill has a great lecture on YouTube.

The Blackwater fighting took place close to where my grandfather grew up, near the old crossings by Armagh. He used to say the drumlins there were perfect for hiding whole companies of men. Locals still talk about weapons pulled from the bog after heavy rains. The ground itself explains how O’Neill won.

I believe this would make an AMAZING movie.  Such intrigue, foreign influence, ambushes, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory...it has it all.

Hugh O’Neill almost pulled it off. The Gael’s last gasp.

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Missed out on "plashing" .. the Irish used the trees to create fortifications. They would bend tall trees down and then weave the branches together thereby creating formidable natural barriers .. I believe (though can not prove) the Irish kept open certain passages through these obstacles. This would have allowed the Irish to rapidly redeploy whilst ensuring any pursuing English troops would become hopelessly lost trying to follow the Irish through the undergrowth

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Reaching into a barrel of gun powder while holding a slow match... GENIUS!!!

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The first engagements were led by lads with shields and swords making the English get complacent thinking any uprising will be small scale against armed peasants at a time when Shot and Pike tactics were in bloom

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