. Family notes. n. .^ — it™ i»>^k A A ^. IRISH DESCENT tested ground, wounded men crawling away, imploring mercv bridge was heaped with mutilated carcasses, burnt by the riflemen with savage exultation throwing the bodies of woundedand slain into the river to make room tor us to cross in pursuit, com-pleted a scene which may be witnessed but is almost impossible to de-scribe. Night closed in, we occupying the ground lately in possession ofthe enemy. Our loss amounted to six hundred men and officers. Pour months after the battle of Almoster, the forces of the Pre
. Family notes. n. .^ — it™ i»>^k A A ^. IRISH DESCENT tested ground, wounded men crawling away, imploring mercv bridge was heaped with mutilated carcasses, burnt by the riflemen with savage exultation throwing the bodies of woundedand slain into the river to make room tor us to cross in pursuit, com-pleted a scene which may be witnessed but is almost impossible to de-scribe. Night closed in, we occupying the ground lately in possession ofthe enemy. Our loss amounted to six hundred men and officers. Pour months after the battle of Almoster, the forces of the Pretender,disheartened by a long series of defeats, surrendered to the forces ofthe Young Queen. The sceptre so long wielded with tyranny andoppression was at length wrested from the grasp of a tyrant, now exiledin a foreign land. By an Eye-Witness. Nassau, 21 July 1838. [37] PART THIRDEnglish Descent
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