The consequence was that, in the little combats of this short campaign, the invaders had on their side the hearty sympathy of all Englishmen.
The first of these encounters took place at Wincanton.

Mackay's regiment, composed of British soldiers, lay near a body of the King's Irish troops, commanded by their countryman, the gallant Sarsfield.
Mackay sent out a small party under a lieutenant named Campbell, to procure horses for the baggage.

Campbell found what he wanted at Wincanton, and was just leaving that town on his return, when a strong detachment of Sarsfield's troops approached.

The Irish were four to one: but Campbell resolved to fight it out to the last.

With a handful of resolute men he took his stand in the road.