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Home › Forums › Renaissance › The Battle of the Curlew Pass 1599
The Earl of Essex wasn’t present but this is the battle that led him to the scaffold. It was fought between a modern English Army and semi modernised Irish one. It saw two spectacular set piece charges; one by the Irish Galloglaich, possibly their last winning one and one by the English cavalry up hill and across a bog that saved their army.
If that sounds your cup of tea here’s the link to my blog post.
https://youdonotknowthenorth.blogspot.com
OB
http://withob.blogspot.co.uk/
Enjoyable post, thank you sir. I really like how you present the overlap of new and old with the armies. Quite an interesting time. I’d have hated to be a pikeman with people shooting at me…
"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."
Thanks DSG. Yeah, you couldn’t do a damn thing about it unless your officer led out a sleeve of pike to chase them away.
OB
http://withob.blogspot.co.uk/