He was wounded in several places: he was struck to the ground; and in another moment his brains would have been knocked out with the butt end of a musket, when he was recognised and saved.

The colonists lost only twenty men killed and fifty wounded.

They took four hundred prisoners, seven pieces of cannon, fourteen barrels of powder, all the drums and all the colours of the vanquished enemy, [259] The battle of Newton Butler was won on the same afternoon on which the boom thrown over the Foyle was broken.

At Strabane the news met the Celtic army which was retreating from Londonderry.

All was terror and confusion: the tents were struck: the military stores were flung by waggon loads into the waters of the Mourne; and the dismayed Irish, leaving many sick and wounded to the mercy of the victorious Protestants, fled to Omagh, and thence to Charlemont.