414 years ago, thousands of Spanish troops invaded Kinsale

[barryqwalsh]

AT 6PM ON 21 September, 1601, Spanish forces invaded the Co Cork harbour town of Kinsale in response to a plea for help from Irish insurgents.

What followed was one of the greatest siege dramas in world history – an epic confrontation that deserves to rank alongside The Alamo and Rorke’s Drift.


On this day 414 years ago, thousands of Spanish troops invaded Kinsale

 

[whitehall]

Here in the Colonies it's hard to take sides in a European tribal dispute 414 years ago. It seems that the Irish people were always the victims, whether it was famine or slaughter at the hands of British royalty. The Spanish were fools to take sides in a war between the Brits and the Irish that still lasts to this day.