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A Popular History of Ireland V2 From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics

Chapter 10 CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN--1649-1650.

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a saint, or reprobated as a hypocrite, worshipped for his extraordinary successes, or anathematized for the unworthy artifices by which he rose-who

s of the educated or cultivated: the simple, and, as far as possible, the unimpassioned narrati

at which he embarked, arriving in Dublin on the 15th of August. He entered the city in procession, and addressed the townsfolk from "a convenient place." He had with him two hundred thousand pounds in money, eight regiments of foot, six of horse, and some troops of dragoons; besides the divisions of Jones and Monck, already in

oth sides. Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry, and Carlingford fell in September; Arklow, Enniscorthy, and Wexford in October; Ross, one of the first seaports in point of commerce, surrendered the same month; Waterford was attempted and abandoned in November; Dungarvan, Kinsale, Bandon, and Cork were won over by Lord Broghill in December; Fethard, Callan, and Cashel in January and February; Carrick and Kilkenny in March; and Clonmel, early in May. Immediately after th

walls, tradition still recounts with horror and detestation. This port was particularly obnoxious to the Parliament, as from its advantageous position on the Bristol channel, its cruisers greatly annoyed and embarrassed their commerce. "There are," Cromwell writes to Speaker Lenthall, "great quantities of iron, hides, tallow, salt, pipe and barrel staves, which are under commissioners' hands to be secured. We believe there are near a hundred cannon in the fort and elsewhere in and about the town. Here is likewise some very good shipping; here are three vessels, one of them of thirty-four guns, which a

marching southward to his aid at the head of 6,000 chosen men. Lord Chancellor Clarendon assures us that Ormond had the highest hopes from this junction, and the utmost confidence in O'Neil's abilities. But at a ball at Derry, towards the end of August, he received his death, it is said, in a pair of poisoned russet leather slippers presented to him by one Plunkett; marching southward, borne in a litter, he expired at Clough Oughter Castle, near his old Belturbet camp, on the 6th of November, 1649. His last act was to order one of his nephews-Hugh O'Neil-to form a junction with Ormond in Munster without delay. In the chancel of the Franciscan Abbey of Cavan, now grass-grown and trodden by the hoofs of cattle, h

uted to Cromwell's repulse before that city; Hugh O'Neil covered himself with glory at Clonmel and Limerick; Daniel O'Neil, another nephew of Owen, remained attached to Ormond, and accompanied him to France; but within six months from the loss of their Fabian chief, who knew as well when to strike as to delay, the brave Bishop of Clogher sacrificed the remnant of "the Catholic Army" at the

scriptural battle-songs. They were, by their own account, "obliged to give back a while," and finally night settled down upon the scene. The following day, finding the place no longer tenable, the garrison silently withdrew

nqueror who had wiped out the humiliation of Benburb, and humbled the pride of the detested Papists. He was lodged in the palace o

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1 Chapter 1 JAMES I.-FLIGHT OF THE EARLS-CONFISCATION OF ULSTER- PENAL LAWS-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION.2 Chapter 2 LAST YEARS OF JAMES-CONFISCATION OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES-ACCESSION OF CHARLES I.-GRIEVANCES AND GRACES -ADMINISTRATION OF LORD STRAFFORD.3 Chapter 3 LORD STRAFFORD'S IMPEACHMENT AND EXECUTION-PARLIAMENT OF 1639-'41-THE INSURRECTION OF 1641-THE IRISH ABROAD.4 Chapter 4 THE INSURRECTION OF 1641.5 Chapter 5 THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION-ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.6 Chapter 6 THE CONFEDERATE WAR-CAMPAIGN OF 1643-THE CESSATION.7 Chapter 7 THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.8 Chapter 8 GLAMORGAN'S TREATY-THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI- O'NEIL'S POSITION-THE BATTLE OF BENBURB.9 Chapter 9 FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN.10 Chapter 10 CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN--1649-1650.11 Chapter 11 CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR.12 Chapter 12 REIGN OF CHARLES II.13 Chapter 13 REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.)14 Chapter 14 THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.15 Chapter 15 ACCESSION OF JAMES II.-TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION.16 Chapter 16 KING JAMES IN IRELAND-IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689.17 Chapter 17 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR-CAMPAIGN OF 1689-SIEGES OF DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.18 Chapter 18 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR-CAMPAIGN OF 1690-BATTLE OF THE BOYNE-ITS CONSEQUENCES-THE SIEGES OF ATHLONE AND LIMERICK.19 Chapter 19 THE WINTER OF 1690-91,20 Chapter 20 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR-CAMPAIGN OF 1691-BATTLE OF AUGHRIM-CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK.21 Chapter 21 REIGN OF KING WILLIAM.22 Chapter 22 REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.23 Chapter 23 ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.-SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP.24 Chapter 24 REIGN OF GEORGE II.-GROWTH OF PUBLIC SPIRIT-THE PATRIOT PARTY-LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION.25 Chapter 25 THE LAST JACOBITE MOVEMENT-THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD- FRENCH EXPEDITION UNDER THUROT, OR O'FARRELL.26 Chapter 26 REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)-MALONE'S LEADERSHIP.27 Chapter 27 ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.-FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP- OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED.28 Chapter 28 FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP-STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776.29 Chapter 29 GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP- FREE TRADE, AND THE VOLUNTEERS.30 Chapter 30 GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP-LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED.31 Chapter 31 THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE-FIRST PERIOD.32 Chapter 32 THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE-SECOND PERIOD.33 Chapter 33 THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE-THIRD PERIOD- CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL OF 1793.34 Chapter 34 THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE-EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN IRELAND-SECESSION OF GRATTAN, CURRAN, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FROM PARLIAMENT, IN 1797.35 Chapter 35 THE UNITED IRISHMEN.36 Chapter 36 NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND-THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES.37 Chapter 37 THE INSURRECTION OF 1798.38 Chapter 38 THE INSURRECTION OF 1798-THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION.39 Chapter 39 THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE-FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN.40 Chapter 40 ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS-BEFORE THE UNION.41 Chapter 41 AFTER THE UNION-DEATH OF LORD CLARE- ROBERT EMMET'S EMEUTE.42 Chapter 42 ADMINISTRATION OF LORD HARDWICKE (1801 TO 1806), AND OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD (1806 TO 1808).43 Chapter 43 ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND (1807 TO 1813).44 Chapter 44 O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP-1813 TO 1821.45 Chapter 45 RETROSPECT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.46 Chapter 46 THE IRISH ABROAD, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.47 Chapter 47 O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP-THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION- 1821 TO 1826.48 Chapter 48 O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP-THE CLARE ELECTION-EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.