[86] It was indeed necessary that he should bestir himself; for, a few days after his arrival, he learned that, on the other side of the Pale, all was ready for action.

The greater part of the English force was collected, before the close of May, in the neighbourhood of Mullingar.
Ginkell commanded in chief.

He had under him the two best officers, after Marlborough, of whom our island could then boast, Talmash and Mackay.

The Marquess of Ruvigny, the hereditary chief of the refugees, and elder brother of the brave Caillemot, who had fallen at the Boyne, had joined the army with the rank of major general.

The Lord Justice Coningsby, though not by profession a soldier, came down from Dublin, to animate the zeal of the troops.