[Orange and Green by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookOrange and Green CHAPTER 7: The Coming Battle 16/28
The Enniskilleners treated the Irish soldiers and their families with great brutality, as they passed along, but Schomberg humanely ordered that a loaf of bread should be given to each man at Armagh.
The Irish army were not in condition to render any assistance to the hard pressed garrison of Charlemont, until after they had capitulated. In the meantime, a great army, which was to be led by King William in person, was being collected in England.
It consisted of a strange medley, collected from almost every European nation--English, Scotch, Irish Protestants, French Huguenots, Dutch, Swedes, Danes, Brandenburghers, Swiss, Norwegians, and Hessians.
More than half, indeed, were foreigners. All were well disciplined, armed, and clothed.
In all, including the force under Schomberg, the army amounted to forty-three thousand men, and fifty cannon. King William landed at Carrickfergus, on the 14th of June, and the combined army at once began their southward march.
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