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| Battle of Dundalk Battle of Dundalk[1] | |||||||
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| Part of the Bruce campaign in Ireland | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Scotland and Gaelic allies | Lordship of Ireland and Gaelic allies | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Edward Bruce † |
John de Bermingham Edmund Butler | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,000 and thousands of dispersed reinforcements | c. 20,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 30 knights and more than 80 men-at-arms killed[2] | Light | ||||||
The Battle of Faughart (or Battle of Dundalk[3]) was fought on 14 October 1318 between an Anglo-Irish force led by John de Bermingham (later created 1st Earl of Louth) and Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, and a Scottish and Irish army commanded by Prince Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, brother of King Robert I of Scots ('Robert the Bruce'). It was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence and more precisely the Irish Bruce Wars. The defeat and death of Bruce at the battle ended the attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland. It also ended, for the time being, King Robert's attempt to open up a second front against the English in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- ^ D'Alton, John (1845). The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245, Vol II. Published by the author. p. 49.
- ^ Bruce G. & Harbottle T.B. (1971) Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (revised edition), Hart-Davis McGibbon Ltd.; Granada Publishing, London, 1979: 303 pp.
- ^ D'Alton, John (1845). The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245, Vol II page 49 "...popularly called the battle of Dundalk...". Published by the author. p. 49.