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O'Neill, Hugh, 3rd Baron of Dungannon, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
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| Irish chieftain. In 1593 he displaced his kinsman Turlough Luineach O'Neill as the O'Neill chieftain and quickly became the most powerful nobleman in Ulster. He formed an alliance with the other Irish chiefs and sought aid against Protestant England from Catholic Spain. He led a victorious attack, destroying the English force at Yellow Ford on Blackwater (1598), but was defeated by Blount (1601–2). In 1603 he fled to the Spanish Netherlands with Rory O'Donnell (1575–1608) and other Irish noblemen (the ‘Flight of the Earls’), and died an exile in Rome. |
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