History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . IRISH REBELLION. 97 garrison equally reduced in strength and numbers—the insurgents werehanging in immense force about the town—a night attack seemedalmost certain—and no hope could be held out that, under existingcircumstances, it could be repulsed. A council of war was held—andafter mature deliberation it was resolved to abandon the town, andmarch on Wexford by the eastern side of the river, by St. Johns. From the suddenness of the retreat, only a few of the Protestant in-habitants could a
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . IRISH REBELLION. 97 garrison equally reduced in strength and numbers—the insurgents werehanging in immense force about the town—a night attack seemedalmost certain—and no hope could be held out that, under existingcircumstances, it could be repulsed. A council of war was held—andafter mature deliberation it was resolved to abandon the town, andmarch on Wexford by the eastern side of the river, by St. Johns. From the suddenness of the retreat, only a few of the Protestant in-habitants could accompany the troops—and they could carry withthem no other comforts or necessaries but the apparel which theywore. Imagination cannot form a more tragic scene than the me-lancholy train of fugitives, of whom some were so helpless from theirwounds, from sickness, the feebleness of old age or infancy, that theycould not have effected their escape had not the yeomen cavalrymounted them on their horses. Some parents were reduced to thedreadful necessity of leaving their infants in cottages on
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