Archie and the chiefs, with the few mounted men among the retainers, strove in vain to stem the torrent.

Under the orders of their leaders the English kept in a compact mass, and the weight of the horses and armour bore down all opposition.

Four times did the men-at-arms burst through the struggling mass of Irish.

As they formed to charge the fifth time the latter lost heart, and as if acting under a simultaneous influence they turned and fled.
The English horse burst down on the rear of the mass of fugitives, hewing them down in hundreds.

Those nearest to the river dashed in, and numbers were drowned in striving to cross it.