The effective men under his command, even if all were reckoned as effective who were not stretched on the earth by fever, did not now exceed five thousand.

These were hardly equal to their ordinary duty; and yet it was necessary to harass them with double duty.

Nevertheless so masterly were the old man's dispositions that with this small force he faced during several weeks twenty thousand troops who were accompanied by a multitude of armed banditti.

At length early in November the Irish dispersed, and went to winter quarters.

The Duke then broke up his camp and retired into Ulster.