The assailants mounted by hundreds.

The Irish gave way and ran towards the bridge.

There the press was so great that some of the fugitives were crushed to death in the narrow passage, and others were forced over the parapets into the waters which roared among the mill wheels below.

In a few hours Ginkell had made himself master of the English quarter of Athlone; and this success had cost him only twenty men killed and forty wounded.

[93] But his work was only begun.