At the same time, Hugh O'Neill and…
October 1601 CE
At the same time, Hugh O'Neill and his ally O'Donnell consider their positions, before setting out—separately from each other—with a total of five thousand infantry and seven hundred cavalry, on a three hundred-mile winter march.
The combined armies of O’Neill, O’Donnell and Tyrrell come to six thousand one hundred and eighty.
This includes five hundred of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare’s men, and two hundred of Ocampo’s Spaniards.