The force which he had brought with him did not exceed ten thousand men.

But he expected to be joined by the armed colonists and by the regiments which were under Kirke's command.
The coffeehouse politicians of London fully expected that such a general with such an army would speedily reconquer the island.

Unhappily it soon appeared that the means which had been furnished to him were altogether inadequate to the work which he had to perform: of the greater part of these means he was speedily deprived by a succession of unforeseen calamities; and the whole campaign was merely a long struggle maintained by his prudence and resolution against the utmost spite of fortune.
He marched first to Carrickfergus.

That town was held for James by two regiments of infantry.

Schomberg battered the walls; and the Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.