NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Dungans Hill

The Battle of Dungans Hill took place in Meath (An Mhí in Irish) is a county in the Republic of Ireland, the county is often informally called The Royal County. ...Meath, in eastern A true colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on January 4, 2003. ...Ireland in August Events March 14 _ Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ...1647. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland and the A body now called the English Parliament first arose during the thirteenth century, referred to variously as colloquium and parliamentum. It shared most of the powers typical of representative institutions in medieval and early modern Europe, and was arranged from the fourteenth century in a bicameral manner, with a House...English Parliament during the The Wars of the Three Kingdoms include an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 which included the Bishops Wars of 1639 and 1640, the Scottish Civil War of 1644_5; the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Confederate Ireland, 1642_9 and...Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Although it is a little known event, even in Ireland, the battle was very bloody (with over 3000 deaths) and had important political repercussions. The Parliamentarian victory there destroyed the Irish Confederate’s Leinster army and contributed towards the collapse of the Confederate cause and the Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. ...Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649.

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By 1647, The Irish Catholic Confederation controlled all of Ireland except for Parliamentarian enclaves around Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ...Dublin and Cork _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...Cork and a Scottish outpost in For other places and things named Ulster, see Ulster (disambiguation). ...Ulster. The previous year they had rejected a treaty with the English The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ...Royalists in favour of eliminating the remaining British forces in Ireland.

In August 1647, the Confederate Leinster army under Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585 _ 1655) was a descendant of Sir Robert de Preston, who in 1363 purchased the lands of Gormanston, Co. ...Thomas Preston was attempting to take Dublin from the English Parliamentarian garrison under Micheal Jones, when it was intercepted by the The Roundheads was the nickname given to supporters of the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. ...Roundheads and forced to give battle.

The battle took place near the modern village of Summerhill and along the present main road between For other meanings, see trim (disambiguation). ...Trim and Maynooth (Maigh Nuad in Irish) is a town located in County Kildare, Ireland. ...Maynooth. Both armies were around 6000 strong.

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From a Parliamentarian point of view, victory in this battle was presented to them by the incompetence of the Irish commanders. Preston was a veteran of the The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ...Thirty Years War where he had been a commander of the The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino da España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ...Spanish garrison at Leuven in 2004 Leuven (Louvain in French, Löwen in German) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, of which it is the capital. ...Louvain, but had no experience of open warfare or handling An army unit consisting of mounted soldiers are commonly known as cavalry. ...cavalry. As a result, he tried to move his cavalry along a narrow covered lane (site of the present day main road), where they trapped and subjected to enemy fire without being able to respond. The demoralised Irish cavalry fled the field, leaving Preston’s infantry alone.

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What happened next is disputed. The Irish infantry managed to hold off several assaults on their position, before trying to follow their comrades into the safety of the bog. This made them lose their formation and the Parliamentarians got in amongst them. Parliamentarian accounts simply say that the Irish force was destroyed. Irish accounts, however, claim that the Confederate troops surrendered and were then massacred. A recent study (Padraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War, Cork 2001), suggests that the Irishmen probably tried to surrender, but that, according to the conventions of 17th century warfare, this had to be accepted before it entitled them to safety. In this case, it was not accepted and the infantrymen were butchered. Around 3000 Confederate troops and a small number of Parliamentarians died at Dungans Hill. Most of the dead were Irish infantrymen killed in the last stage of the battle. Those prisoners who were taken were mainly officers, whom the Parliamentarians could either ransom or exchange for prisoners of their own. Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell was among the Confederate prisoners.

In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Owen Roe O'Neill's Ulster army came south to protect Confederate held Leinster (Irish: Laighin) is the eastern province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. ...Leinster from Jones. However the Confederates best trained and equipped army had been destroyed and with it, their last chance of winning the war without Royalist help.

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