Siege of Kinsale

Siege of Kinsale
Part of the Nine Years' War

Map of the siege of Kinsale, 1602
Date2 October 1601 – 3 January 1602
Location
Kinsale, Kingdom of Ireland
51°41′55″N 8°30′44″W / 51.6986°N 8.5122°W / 51.6986; -8.5122
Result English victory
Belligerents

England Kingdom of England

Irish confederacy
Spain
Commanders and leaders
Charles Blount
George Carew
Richard Leveson
Donogh O'Brien		 Hugh O'Neill
Juan del Águila
Hugh Roe O'Donnell
Richard Tyrrell
Strength
11,800 infantry
857 cavalry[1]		 Irish alliance
6,000
Spanish
3,500 [2][3]
Casualties and losses
Unknown casualties
many deserted, sick or dead to disease[4]		 Irish alliance
1,200 killed, wounded or captured (many later executed)[5]
Spanish
100 killed or wounded
3,400 surrendered[6]

The siege of Kinsale (Irish: Léigear Chionn tSáile), also known as the battle of Kinsale, was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland, commencing in October 1601, near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and at the climax of the Nine Years' War—a campaign by Hugh O'Neill, Hugh Roe O'Donnell and other Irish lords against English rule.[7]

Owing to Spanish involvement and the strategic advantages to be gained, the battle also formed part of the Anglo-Spanish War, the wider conflict of Protestant England against Catholic Spain.[7]

  1. ^ Falls p.299
  2. ^ Sandler p.465
  3. ^ Corvisier/Childs p.423
  4. ^ Lewis p.231
  5. ^ Sandler p.466
  6. ^ Canny p. 282
  7. ^ a b Hiram Morgan (ed) The battle of Kinsale (Cork, 2006)