Siege of Kinsale

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Siege of Kinsale
Part of the Nine Years' War
Map of the siege of Kinsale, 1602
Date 2 October 1601 – 3 January 1602 Location Kinsale, Kingdom of Ireland 51°41′55″N 8°30′44″W / 51.6986°N 8.5122°W / 51.6986; -8.5122 Result English victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of England Irish loyalists	Irish alliance Spain
Commanders and leaders
Charles Blount George Carew Richard Leveson Donogh O'Brien	Hugh O'Neill Juan del Águila Hugh Roe O'Donnell Richard Tyrrell
Strength
11,800 infantry 857 cavalry[1]	Irish alliance 6,000 Spanish 3,500 [2][3]
Casualties and losses
Unknown casualties many deserted, sick or dead to disease[4]	Irish alliance 1,200 killed, wounded or captured (many later executed)[5] Spanish 100 killed or wounded, 3,400 prisoners[6]

The siege of Kinsale (Irish: Léigear Chionn tSáile), also known as the battle of Kinsale, was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland, commencing in October 1601, near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and at the climax of the Nine Years' War—a campaign by Hugh O'Neill, Hugh Roe O'Donnell and other Irish lords against English rule.

Owing to Spanish involvement and the strategic advantages to be gained, the battle also formed part of the Anglo-Spanish War, the wider conflict of Protestant England against Catholic Spain.