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MICHAEL JONES (d. 1649)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL JONES (d. 1649)  ,
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British soldier . His
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father was bishop of
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Killaloe in Ireland . At the outbreak of the
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English
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Civil War he was studying law, but he soon took service in the army of the king in Ireland . He was
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present with Ormonde's army in many of the expeditions and combats of the devastating Irish War, but upon the conclusion of the " Irish Cessation " (see ORMONDE, JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF) he resolved to leave the king's service for that of the parliament, in which he soon distinguished himself by his activity and skill . In the Welsh War, and especially at the last
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great victory at Rowton Heath, Jones's cavalry was always far
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superior to that of the Royalists, and in
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reward for his services he was made governor of Chester when that city fell into the hands of the parliament . Soon afterwards Jones was sent again to the Irish War, in the capacity of
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commander-in-chief . He began his
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work by reorganizing the army in the neighbourhood of
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Dublin, and for some time he carried on a desultory war of posts, necessarily more concerned for his supplies than for a victory . But at Dungan Hill he obtained a
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complete success over the army of General Preston, and though the war was by no means ended, Jones was able to hold a large tract of country for the parliament . But on the execution of Charles I., the war entered upon a new phase, and garrison after garrison fell to Ormonde's Royalists . Soon Jones was shut up in Dublin, and then followed a siege which was regarded both in England and Ireland with the most intense
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interest . On the znd of August 1649 the Dublin garrison relieved itself by the brilliant
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action of Rathmines, in which the royal army was practically destroyed . A fortnight later Cromwell landed with heavy reinforcements from England .

Jones, his

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lieutenant-general, took the field; but on the 19th of December 1649 he died, worn out by the fatigues of the
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campaign .

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