History of Ireland, From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union of the Country With Great Britain
History of Ireland, From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union of the Country With Great Britain
Taylor, W. C. (William Cooke), 1800-1849
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A British army, amounting at least to four thousand meif, and supported by fourteen pieces 6f cannon, fled almost without firing a shot, from eight hundred Frenchmen and about a thousand unarmed peasantry, who had no other artillery than one curricle gun. Want of means prevented Humbert from improving Digitized by VjOOQ IC t80 Bunromr of nuLAim* his ftdvantages; bat he contrived to baffle all the efforts of the EngUsh generals, from the twenty- second of August until the eighth of September, wh...en, being nearly surrounded 1^ an army of thirty thousand men, he was forced to surrender. The Irish by whom he had been joined, being excluded from quarter, fled in all directions, and were pursued with great severity. Killala was reduced in about a fortnight after ; but the army, on entering it, com- mitted several gross outrages, murdering not only the insurgents, but several unfortunate loyalists who hastened to greet them as deliverers. This wanton cruelty was the more unjustifiable, as, during the brief contest, not a drop of blood had been shed by the Connaught insurgents, except in the field of battle.
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