Yet it is impossible for the moralist or the statesman to look with unmixed complacency on the solemnities with which Londonderry commemorates her deliverance, and on the honours which she pays to those who saved her.
Unhappily the animosities of her brave champions have descended with their glory.

The faults which are ordinarily found in dominant castes and dominant sects have not seldom shown themselves without disguise at her festivities; and even with the expressions of pious gratitude which have resounded from her pulpits have too often been mingled words of wrath and defiance.
The Irish army which had retreated to Strabane remained there but a very short time.

The spirit of the troops had been depressed by their recent failure, and was soon completely cowed by the news of a great disaster in another quarter.
Three weeks before this time the Duke of Berwick had gained an advantage over a detachment of the Enniskilleners, and had, by their own confession, killed or taken more than fifty of them.

They were in hopes of obtaining some assistance from Kirke, to whom they had sent a deputation; and they still persisted in rejecting all terms offered by the enemy.

It was therefore determined at Dublin that an attack should be made upon them from several quarters at once.