D'Usson, with about two thousand three hundred men, marched unmolested to Limerick.

[111] At Limerick, the last asylum of the vanquished race, the authority of Tyrconnel was supreme.

There was now no general who could pretend that his commission made him independent of the Lord Lieutenant; nor was the Lord Lieutenant now so unpopular as he had been a fortnight earlier.
Since the battle there had been a reflux of public feeling.

No part of that great disaster could be imputed to the Viceroy.

His opinion indeed had been against trying the chances of a pitched field, and he could with some plausibility assert that the neglect of his counsels had caused the ruin of Ireland.