The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-07-21
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magnificent valor The fight was hand
to hand and sword to sword. and the
splendid horsemen grew fewer and fever.
Hamilton went down and was led away
captive, but he was avenged for the Irish
dragons charged now for higher game |
and rode for the spot where standards
Haunted and Schomberg led. Into trose
ranks they broke like g torrent, saberlng |
and pistoling, and the great Duke rolled
from thesaddle, dead, under the blows OF
an Irish trooper. Then the immortal
Irish horse hewed its way out OF the
melee, with thinned ranks and defeated;
but grizzly satisfied with their bloody
work. Had Lanzun and his battalions
been there to support their valor, history
might haye told another tale; but alone. 1
and outnumbered ten to one, they fought
as Irish soldiers love to fight, steel to
Steel. looking their foemen in the eye.
and they died in harness. The army OF
the scurvy king was saved; but the Irish
dragons were practically annihilated.
The battle was over and William held
the field. The French held the Pass of
Duleek until the defeated army passed
on to Dublin, and then Lauzun followed
with drums beating and banners flying.
The English loss Yves about 800; the
Irish left 1900 on the field, mostly dra-
goons, while the French loss was not
! worth mention. James ran away from
the field early in the day and accompanied
by his courtiers reached Dublin safe and
tremulous. During his brief stay in the
Irish capital he spoke bitterly of his Irish
troops, slandering the men who were
striving to keep the crown on his ignoble
head. and after callously telling them to
make the best terms they could with
William, he fed to France. There his
contemplate nature asserted itself, and
he and his sycophants-English and
Scotch-so maligned the Irish soldiers
to cover up the Kings pusillanimity that
| Irish merchants were mobbed in the
streets of Havre and Rochelle.
We know now from one familiar with
the secrets Of this poltroon's court--the
work entitled "Macari@ Excidium"-
that he deliberately evaded proper meas
ure of preparation and defense and cooliy
plotted the ruin of his Irish followers to
placate the men, who kicked him Oft the
throne. Never were Irish valor and 10y
atty wasted on more wretched king
and cause; and they were repaid with
the usual Stuart coin, dishonor and false
hood. Had the Irish Of that day thought
more of their hearths and homes, and
less of that worthless English king, they
| would have made terms with William
and the revolutionary government, and
secured then what it has taken three
centuries of suffering to accomplish.
/ But though the king With the white
liver had fed, his treacherous courtiers
remained in authority to plague the ma
tion and paralyze 'the arm Of Sars6eld
and the army he had gathered together;
and war dragged ON that was as disas-
trous to ireland as it was glorious to
Irish valor and fidelity. The battle of
Aughrim and the Selge of Limerick
drought out stubborn valor in tie raw
Irish soldiery pitted against veteran mer-
oenaries that excited the admiration and
sympathy OF France and revealed to that
nation how false had been the SANDERS
of the royal pdltroon, James Stuart.
The end of the war saw the transporta.
ton OF. an army of exiles. to France, who
paid their score to England ON nany q
bloody field; but the evacuation of Ire.
land by her defenders saw the violation
of the Limerick Treaty and the begin
ming of the dark penal night
The Irish who suffered for their 10y
atty to ] ames made no mistake about him.
A long suffering, but intensely humorous
race, they look back with a smile at this
pitiful figure in history. shrug their
shoulders. and give him name that ex-
presses the concentrated contempt of
three centuries. The quick-witted Irish
have by phrase given one king to the
eternal contempt ofthe ages; the thick
witted English garrison in Ireland have
given the other to unmerited odium BY.
trying to fasten an eagles name to car
rion crow. @
! The Battle of the Boyne was won and
/ lost two centuries ago; but the Irish are
rapidly regaining Ireland and the rob-
bers are going to the wall. Where are
the ripened fruits of defeat? With us or
with them. The reverend Boston Or
angeman who compared the Boyne with
Bunker Hill, recently, told al, unwilling
| @-,.+b. 10th %of1 tho aamn st0rv--that ut