The transfer of the military power had been not less complete.

The army, which, under the command of Ormond, had been the chief safeguard of the English ascendency, had ceased to exist.

Whole regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed.
Six thousand Protestant veterans, deprived of their bread, were brooding in retirement over their wrongs, or had crossed the sea and joined the standard of William.

Their place was supplied by men who had long suffered oppression, and who, finding themselves suddenly transformed from slaves into masters, were impatient to pay back, with accumulated usury, the heavy debt of injuries and insults.

The new soldiers, it was said, never passed an Englishman without cursing him and calling him by some foul name.