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661:(Irish long knives). Monro and his cavalry fled the scene, as, shortly after, did his infantry. A great many of them were cut down or drowned in the ensuing pursuit. Monro's losses were estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 men, killed or wounded; the Irish casualties were estimated to be 300.
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Scottish Covenanter regiments and Ulster settlers armies into Confederate-held territory. According to some accounts, this was the first step in a drive to take the Confederates' capital at
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for the rest of the war. O'Neill did not follow up his victory but took his army south to intervene in the politics of the Irish
Confederation. In particular, he wanted to dissuade those who favoured peace with the English
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wrote, "many of them must have been close to exhaustion before the battle began". Monro's men drew up with their backs to the
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