The Battle of the Boyne Together With An Account Based On French And Other Unpu
The Battle of the Boyne Together With An Account Based On French And Other Unpu
Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger
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The officers, more fortunate, had accompanied Marlborough and been duly interned in the Tower, where they were awaiting the orders of the British Government to join their men at Ostend. It was April, 1691, before this reunion took place, and then the Irish troops were locked up there and in Bruges. No arrangements had been made for their reception, and the sufferings and hardships undergone defy description. So intolerable did these become that the Irish officers resorted to violence in an atte...mpt to remedy them, whereupon they were placed in chains. The arrangement was that 288 THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE they were to be exchanged for foreign, that is to say non- Dutch, prisoners in the hands of the French, but the French authorities had not been a party to the arrangement, and William never informed them. His plan was to leave the starving soldiery no alternative save to enter the service of the Emperor and to proceed to Hungary to fight the Turks. The French report states that " although subjected to the harshest treatment they held out loyally.
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