Timeline of The Irish Confederate Wars - 1650

1650

• April: Cromwell besieges Clonmel (Siege of Clonmel).

• May: New Model Army troops assault Clonmel but are beaten off with heavy casualties. The garrison slips away and the town surrneders on terms the next day.

• Cromwell leaves Ireland

• Charles II repudiates the Second Ormonde Peace and his alliance with Irish Catholics. Cromwell publishes lenient surrender terms for Protestant Royalists.

• The Protestant Royalist garrisons in Munster defect to the Parliamentarian side.

• 10 May, Battle of Macroom, Irish Confederate force defeated near Macroom, Cork.

• 19 June, Siege and Battle of Tecroghan, near Trim. tactical Irish victory.

• 21 June: Battle of Scarrifholis, near Letterkenny. The Irish Ulster army is defeated and destroyed by English Parliamentarian forces.

• July: Carlow falls to Parliamentarian troops. Waterford is besieged again.

• July: The Siege of Charlemont begins.

• 8 August, Parliamentarian attacks on Charlemont are repulsed with heavy losses.

• 14 August, Charlemont surrenders.

• 10 August, Waterford surrenders to Parliamentarian troops.

• 12 August, Duncannon surrenders.

• 25 October, Battle of Meelick Island, the Irish Connaught Army is routed and the Parliamentarians cross the Shannon into the west of Ireland.

• October, Henry Ireton arrives before Limerick but has to lift the siege and retire to winter quarters.

• December, Ormonde, erstwhile Royalist commander, flees for France.