Qualla: Battle of Glenmaquin https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/battle-of-glenmaquin-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Glenmaquin https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin Battle of Glenmaquin: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin/ Photo credit English School, Public domain. Sir Robert Stewart sent a small vanguard of sharpshooters partway across the field and waited. The Confederates obliged him exactly as he had hoped, charging downhill full force into the small detachment. The sharpshooters turned and ran, drawing the Confederates onto the Laggan Army's fortified position - and into a hail of musket fire that the Confederates, caught in the open, could not survive. The Battle of Glenmaquin lasted only minutes. By the time it ended on 16 June 1642, an estimated five hundred Irish Confederate soldiers lay dead in a Donegal valley, the Confederate Ulster Army's confidence in Sir Felim O'Neill had collapsed, and the Plantation settlers who built the Laggan Army had won themselves another decade of survival.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/battle-of-glenmaquin-wp/gcf8-battle-of-glenmaquin-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Glenmaquin: The Settlers' Army https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Irish Rebellion of 1641 had broken across Ulster the previous autumn, and thousands of Protestant settlers had been driven from their lands. Their houses burned. Their possessions taken. Their families hunted. Some escaped to Royalist strongholds, others sailed for England or...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/battle-of-glenmaquin-wp/gcf8-battle-of-glenmaquin-the-settlers-army.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Glenmaquin: A Spotty Record https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin/ Photo credit English School, Public domain. Sir Felim O'Neill, the man who had organized the initial 1641 uprising and now commanded the Confederate Ulster Army, had a spotty military record - more defeats than victories. His soldiers were undisciplined and prone to plunder rather than fight. In the late spring of 1642 he ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/8/battle-of-glenmaquin-wp/gcf8-battle-of-glenmaquin-two-lines-on-a-hillside.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Glenmaquin: Aftermath https://qualla.com/battle-of-glenmaquin/ Photo credit English School, Public domain. When the first Confederate line broke under musket fire, it retreated in such disorder that it collided with the second line still trying to advance. Both lines panicked. Felim and his officers shouted commands no one heard. Stewart unleashed his cavalry to pursue the fleeing arm...

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