History of the Commonwealth And Protectorate, 1649-1656; 1
History of the Commonwealth And Protectorate, 1649-1656; 1
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I02 DUNDALK AND RATHMINES CHAP. IV.
do, but his victory had been so easy that he resolved to follow it up, and pushed on against Ormond's main station at Rath- Ormond mines. In vain Ormond, now roused from sleep, Rath? *' ^^^w o^^ ^is troops and exhorted them to stand firm, mines. Qnc regiment after another either threw down its arms or fled, and though Ormond summoned to his aid the regiments quartered at Finglas they refused to stir, in spite of the urgency of their commanders. In a very shor...t time a grave disaster had befallen the Royal cause.
The two commanders were even more at variance than is usual in their accounts of the losses suffered by the defeated Ormond's army. Jones declared that he had slain 4,000 and losses. j^jj^ captured 2,5 1 7. Ormond put the number of the killed no higher than 600, and alleged that most of them had been * butchered in cold blood after they had laid down their arms upon promise of quarter and had been for almost an hour prisoners, and divers of them murdered after they were brought within the works of Dublin.' ^ So definite a statement is not refuted by the silence maintained on the other side, but it must be remembered that a considerable number of Ormond's soldiers had gone over to him from the enemy, and that it is not unreasonable to conjecture that Jones held, as he had held in the case of his own nephew, that no promise of quarter could be successfully pleaded by a deserter.* However this may have been, Jones's victory turned the tide of affairs in Ireland.
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I02 DUNDALK AND RATHMINES CHAP. IV.
do, but his victory had been so easy that he resolved to follow it up, and pushed on against Ormond's main station at Rath- Ormond mines. In vain Ormond, now roused from sleep, Rath? *' ^^^w o^^ ^is troops and exhorted them to stand firm, mines. Qnc regiment after another either threw down its arms or fled, and though Ormond summoned to his aid the regiments quartered at Finglas they refused to stir, in spite of the urgency of their commanders. In a very shor...t time a grave disaster had befallen the Royal cause.
The two commanders were even more at variance than is usual in their accounts of the losses suffered by the defeated Ormond's army. Jones declared that he had slain 4,000 and losses. j^jj^ captured 2,5 1 7. Ormond put the number of the killed no higher than 600, and alleged that most of them had been * butchered in cold blood after they had laid down their arms upon promise of quarter and had been for almost an hour prisoners, and divers of them murdered after they were brought within the works of Dublin.' ^ So definite a statement is not refuted by the silence maintained on the other side, but it must be remembered that a considerable number of Ormond's soldiers had gone over to him from the enemy, and that it is not unreasonable to conjecture that Jones held, as he had held in the case of his own nephew, that no promise of quarter could be successfully pleaded by a deserter.* However this may have been, Jones's victory turned the tide of affairs in Ireland.
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