A letter from Major-General Kirk in Ireland to his friend in London. From His Majesties camp near Dublin, July the 4th. 1690. Kirke, Percy, 1646?-1691. 1690 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A47495 Wing K625B ESTC R220035 99831473 99831473 35936 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ireland -- History -- War of 1689-1691 -- Early works to 1800. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER FROM Major-General KIRK in IRELAND , To his Friend here in LONDON . From His Majesties Camp near Dublin , July the 4th . 1690. WHen a Man Dates his Letter so near Dublin , you ought to expect a long Relation how we came thither , which I 'll tell you as short as I can , and that we must have Success when so brave a Man Leads us as our Master , who was the first Man hurt in his Army , with a Cannon Bullet , which frighted every body but himself ; who after he was Dress'd , Rid round the Army , viewed all the Passes , in order to our Attacquing them the next day : I 'll also tell you how we came to be so far advanced as Drogheda ; His Majesty Landing at Carrickfergus , went to Belfast , from whence he sent his Orders for all the Troops to advance to our Frontiers , the Enemy being possessed of all the Passes , and so strongly Encamped near Dundalk , which they had very well Fortified , that if they had not been the least of Men , would have put us to a great deal of trouble to have pass'd the Mountains ; but they Retir'd to Drogheda , where they stayed Encamp'd , with the River Boyne before them , that is but Fordable in three places , and two of them but at low Water : We put our selves in Battle , which sight frighted them , tho' they had the Impudence to come to the Water-side and call us all the Rogues , Rebels , &c. that the French Tongue affords . That Evening was spent in Cannonading , and the next morning his Majesty was resolved to Attacque them , and force their Camp , which certainly was as bold a thing as ever was done ; in order to which , he sent the Right Wing of Horse , and three Brigades of Foot , with some small Field-pieces , to a Pass some 4 Miles from our Camp , which Pass they were Masters of : They seeing us March , went with the best part of the Army towards the Pass , and left in the Camp Lieutenant-General Hamilton , and several Battalians , and a good number of Horse , before their Camp , to keep that Pass . As soon as his Majesty had Notice that our Horse had taken the Pass upon the Right , the Enemy making but a slender resistance , for King James had already made his way towards Dublin , Commanded the rest of the Army to Attacque the Camp ; his Dutch Guards , with Count Solmes , March'd first , who were to pass the Ford by a Retrenchment and Old Houses , that were lin'd with 400 of the Enemy , notwithstanding they passed over the three Battalians of Guards , who were Saluted with a great deal of Fire from the 400 Men Intrenched , so left the Intrenchment ; and then the Enemy Marched down with 7 great and good Battalians ; the Guards received all their fire , and immediately the Enemys Horse Charged them both Front and Rear ; Collonel Collimot's and Ducambones Regiments in the Rear of the Guard , having no Pikes , were a little ill used by the Enemys Horse ; Collonel Collimot Shot through the Thigh and Arm , but I hope he will live ; the poor Old Duke was Killed by an unfortunate Shot through the Neck from one of the French Regiments , being mingled with the Enemy , and had received two Cuts by their Horse in the Head. I March over with Sir John Hanmores Regiment , Tiffin St. Johns , and two Dutch , who were no sooner over , but the Horse Guards of King James Charged , and so well , that several of our Officers were Cut with their Swords , and theirs Kill'd with our Officers Pikes . By this time the Prince of Wertenburg pass'd the other Ford up to the Neck in Water , with the Danes ; the 7 Battalians Retir'd in very good Order , being sustained by their Horse , who did not fail to Charge our Foot as they drew up . Our Horse past next , and you may believe the Enemy Run , when I tell you our brave King ( for so must all the world call him ) Charged at the Head of the Inis-killing Horse , his Lame Hand holding the Bridle , and his Sword in the left Hand ; no Armour but his Blue Ribbon above his Coat : In the Pursuit we took Lieutenant-General Hamilton , and several Officers ; a great many of their best Officers were Killed , and above 1000 Men ; and , to give then their due , they made so good a Retreat , and so fast , that we could do them no hurt , but frightning them , which is to that degree , that they have lef● Dublin , most of their Baggage , all their Amunition and Stores of Provision , a Country full of Furrage , of all sorts ; and I believe there is not 1000 Men left together with Monsieur de Louson . King James we hear has left the Army , and is gone wit● some 3 People with him , towards Waterford , I wis● him a good Journey , our Fleet good Success . Drogheda is Surrender'd upon Discretion ; th● Duke of Ormond is gone last Night into Dublin , t● take Possession ; we March to Morrow . FINIS . Printed for J. M. in Little-Brittain . 1690.