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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.

CHAPTER II
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In this action general Hamilton, who had been the life and soul of the Irish during the whole engagement, was wounded and taken--an incident which discouraged them to such a degree, that they made no further efforts to retrieve the advantage they had lost.

He was immediately brought to the king, who asked him if he thought the Irish would make any further resistance; and he replied, "Upon my honour, I believe they will; for they have still a good body of horse entire." William, eyeing him with a look of disdain, repeated, "Your honour! your honour!" but took no other notice of his having acted contrary to his engagement, when he was permitted to go to Ireland on promise of persuading Tyrconnel to submit to the new government.

The Irish now abandoned the field with precipitation; but the French and Swiss troops, that acted as their auxiliaries under Lausun, retreated in good order, after having maintained the battle for some time with intrepidity and perseverance.
DEATH OF SCHOMBERG.
As king William did not think proper to pursue the enemy, the carnage was not great.

The Irish lost fifteen hundred men, and the English about one-third of that number; though the victory was dearly purchased, considering the death of the gallant duke of Schomberg, who fell in the eighty-second year of his age, after having rivalled the best generals of the time in military reputation.

He was descended of a noble family in the Palatinate, and his mother was an English woman, daughter of lord Dudley.


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