The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . IRELAND IN q8. 99 On they rode, hearing a menace in every whisperof the wind, a cannonade in every rustling of theleaves. Beside this, John Gilpins famous pacesinks to the level of a peddlers jog, nor did TarnOShanters Mag eer display such mettle as theirpanting, sweating beasts, spurred on until the blooddripped from their flanks. So great was their fright,indeed, that they never stopped for breath until theyhad reached the town of Tuam, forty
The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . IRELAND IN q8. 99 On they rode, hearing a menace in every whisperof the wind, a cannonade in every rustling of theleaves. Beside this, John Gilpins famous pacesinks to the level of a peddlers jog, nor did TarnOShanters Mag eer display such mettle as theirpanting, sweating beasts, spurred on until the blooddripped from their flanks. So great was their fright,indeed, that they never stopped for breath until theyhad reached the town of Tuam, forty miles away ;and even here they paused scarce long enough toeat, and then made on to Athlone. At this placean officer of carabineers, with sixty of his men,arrived on the afternoon of the 29th of heroes had covered a distance of over seventyEnglish miles in twenty-seven hours! No wonderthe battle has been jocularly styled the races ofCastlebar ! CHAPTER VI. A Disgraceful Incident—Losses on Both Sides—The French indulgein the Pleasures of Music and Dancing—General Results of theBattle—A Republican Government for HE flight of the British from| <fo Castlebar was marked by anepisode of which two dis-tinct and widely differentversions have been handeddown by contemporaneouswriters. According to Brit-ish official accounts, a partyof French dragoons pursued the re-treating army above a mile from thetown and took a piece of cannon, which they wereon the point of turning on their rear, but a party ofLord Rodens Fencibles rescued the gun and killedfive of them. The other side of the story is as follows : It ap-pears that when Humbert entered Castlebar andwitnessed the utter demoralization of the enemyhe instructed Bartholomew Teeling to secure the FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND. 101 swiftest horses in the town for himself and anescort, and follow up General Lake with proposalsfor a capitulation of the British army. Teelinghad greatly distinguished himsel
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