The Irish clamoured for the blood of the Town Major who had ordered the bridge to be drawn up in the face of their flying countrymen.

His superiors were forced to promise that he should be brought before a court martial.

Happily for him, he had received a mortal wound, in the act of closing the Thomond Gate, and was saved by a soldier's death from the fury of the multitude.

[119] The cry for capitulation became so loud and importunate that the generals could not resist it.

D'Usson informed his government that the fight at the bridge had so effectually cowed the spirit of the garrison that it was impossible to continue the struggle.