Avaux was amazed by the energy which, in circumstances so trying, the Irish displayed.

It was indeed the wild and unsteady energy of a half barbarous people: it was transient: it was often misdirected: but, though transient and misdirected, it did wonders.

The French Ambassador was forced to own that those officers of whose incompetency and inactivity he had so often complained had suddenly shaken off their lethargy.

Recruits came in by thousands.

The ranks which had been thinned under the walls of Londonderry were soon again full to overflowing.