We are numerous, and far better armed than the Papists, and victory might be ours; but, were it otherwise, were every man fated to fall on the field, I would still say let us march forward.

It is not death that I fear, but seeing these weak and helpless ones suffer.

I should not envy the feelings of the men who decided on resistance, when the time came that the women and children were dying of hunger around them.

There is a time to fight; and a time to sheath the sword, and to wait until a chance of drawing it successfully again arrives; and methinks that, having such good terms offered, the present is the time for waiting." The preacher waved his hand impatiently, and, wrapping himself in his cloak, left the house without another word.

The next day the capitulation was signed, and the following day the army of James was seen approaching, and presently halted, on a hill within cannon shot of the town.
Londonderry stands in a bend of the river Foyle, and the position which the army took up at once isolated it from the surrounding country.