Timeline of The Irish Confederate Wars - 1643

1643

• English Royalist forces take Timolin, 200 Catholic civilians were killed by Ormonde's army.

• March 18, Battle of New Ross, English Royalist forces defeat a Confederate Catholic army under Thomas Preston.

• May, O'Neill's Ulster Catholic forces are routed by the Scots at Clones, losing many of its veteran soldiers. He abandons much of central Ulster to rebuild his army.

• June, a Confederate force under James Tuchet, Earl of Castlehaven ambushes the Cork army of Inchiquin at Funcheon Ford. This would prove to be the only significant defeat of the Cork Protestant army in the 1640s.

• September: The Ulster army led by Owen Roe O'Neill defeats an Irish Protestant force at the Battle of Portlester.

• September: A ceasefire known as the Cessation is arranged between the Confederates and English Royalists under Ormonde, effective from 15 September. Negotiations start to create a more formal alliance. Many Royalist troops are withdrawn to fight in England. The Scots in Ulster remain hostile to the Confederates.

• November, 4,000 of the English royalist troops in Dublin are sent back to England.