Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . their fire upon the English linetill their ammunition was exhausted; then perceiving two cav-alry regiments, under Lord Dalhousie, approaching to rein-force the enemy, the insurgent general unwillingly ordered aretreat. No attempt was made to molest the insurgents, who retiredfrom the contest slowly and in good order, bringing withthem five out of the six small pieces of cannon they had con-veyed with them. There is little do
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . their fire upon the English linetill their ammunition was exhausted; then perceiving two cav-alry regiments, under Lord Dalhousie, approaching to rein-force the enemy, the insurgent general unwillingly ordered aretreat. No attempt was made to molest the insurgents, who retiredfrom the contest slowly and in good order, bringing withthem five out of the six small pieces of cannon they had con-veyed with them. There is little doubt that the failure of theinsurgents ammunition saved the English force from destruc-tion, as in case of a retreat, they would have been charged bythe resistless pikemen. The great loss, amounting to aboutfive hundred men in killed and wounded on the side of theEnglish, sufficiently accounts for the unmolested retreat oftheir enemy. In this action the loss of the insurgents did notamount to half that sustained by the royalists. The mainbody of the insurgents encamped on the Three Rocks, whilea party belonging to the town took up their quarters therefor the y. —r +3 -Ti ^ ^ o >- J_, T! 03 =-x ai O -3 a; -< ^ CHAPTER XL ALARM OP THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT-FAMOUS BATTLE OF VINE-GAR HILL. The English government, to render effectual whose viledesign upon the legislative independence of Ireland the peoplehad been goaded into this insurrection, now beginning to fearlest the continued and stubborn resistance of the Wexfordmenmight arouse the rest of the country from their unaccountableapathy, resolved to crush the rebellion at once by pouringinto the country such a force as would render resistance im-possible. It seemed, in truth, from the vastness of Englandsmilitary preparation, as if she were waging war against theumted forces of some powerful and rival nation, not merelyagainst the half-armed peasantry of but one, and that notthe largest, of the thirty-two counties of
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