Caption:
Panoramic drawing of the Siege and Battle of Kinsale by George Carew. The siege of Kinsale, or 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.