He did not, indeed, stand so high as he deserved in the royal estimation.

The King, with an air of intellectual superiority which must have made Avaux and Rosen bite their lips, pronounced him a brave fellow, but very scantily supplied with brains.

It was not without great difficulty that the Ambassador prevailed on His Majesty to raise the best officer in the Irish army to the rank of Brigadier.

Sarsfield now fully vindicated the favourable opinion which his French patrons had formed of him.

He dislodged the English from Sligo; and he effectually secured Galway, which had been in considerable danger, [447] No attack, however, was made on the English entrenchments before Dundalk.