Hugh O’Neill Earl of Tyrone Dies in Rome 1616

#OnThisDay 1616 Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone died in Rome. O’Neill took on & almost beat Elizabethan England in the Nine Years War. The Flight of the Earls in 1607 saw O’Neill & followers leave Ireland for Europe hoping to return with an army, but this happened.

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