Shane O Neill repeated military successes against English forces in Ulster in the early 1560s showed that the English plantation concept faced determined military resistance. Veterans from these Ulster campaigns returned to England and Scotland with knowledge of guerrilla warfare and a destabilising martial spirit. The Shane O Neill challenge forced the Elizabethan government to divert resources from England at precisely the moment of the Northern Rising gestation.
English garrison losses significant; Ulster campaign stalemated
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