Essex now leads the army to Dublin,…
July 1599 CE
Essex now leads the army to Dublin, where it arrives on July 2.
At the end of eight weeks of marching, Essex can barely muster three hundred horsemen.
Not a single rebel commander has submitted to the crown, and no district is left subdued.
A significant number of troops have been left in garrisons throughout Leinster and Munster, and the fighting capability of the army is much reduced because of disease and desertion.
At the same time, Essex is being discredited at court in London for having effected badly needed defensive measures, at a time when the Armada scare of this summer is at its height in England.