Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	colonel_n	horse_n	regiment_n	1,920	5	9.9256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52349	A journal of the most remarkable occurrences that happened between His Majesties army and the forces under the command of Mareschal de Schomberg in Ireland from the twelfth of August to the 23th of October, 1689 faithfully collected by James Nihell, Esq; Under Secretary to the R.H. the Earl of Melfort, His Majesties P.S. of S.	Nihell, James.	1689 (1689)	Wing N1157B; ESTC R41435	4,537	9

to dislodge from the ground he then stood encamped on and to pitch his Tents on the Edges of small Hyllhocks that arise between the Rivers of Mapastown and Atherdee and therfore gave general Orders for preserving the Forrage in all parts within Command of his Army On the 26th a Commanded party of Horse-dragoones with 35 Companies of Granadiers set fire to all the Forrage and Corn on the other side of the Lurgan River for 3 miles along the sea coast and under the Enemies Nose who nevertheless made a faint Sally but were easily forc'd back to their Trenches again On the 28th towards the evening the discharge of the enemies Artillery three times pursued with as many Volleys of small shot and huzza's amused the Kings Camp for some wile untill disabused the next day by a deserter who said all that noise was in celebration of a great victory obteined by those of Iniskillen againk the Kings party at Sligo but this mighty Action upon better intelligence proved a Skirmish between a small band of that County Millitia and a Troop of Rebells wherein 3 of the Loyalists fell and that number twice told of the enemy On the 30th an Ensigne from mac Ca●y More 's Regiment returned to his Majesties Camp with advice that 3 ships whereon were imbarqued Collonel Villiers Troop horse and men were newly cast away that 500 French officers and Soldiers suspected to be Catholicks and well wishers to his Majesties cause were sent a ship-board their place of confinment that seven Frenchmen and a Captain were Hanged upon suspition of affecting the Kings party That Four-score a day at the least were sent from the Enemies Camp to the Hospital and that all their Horses were turned out to Grass for want of Hay and other necessarie Forrage On the 31th 〈◊〉 Regiments of Foot were Commanded to Sligo and the parts on all sides adjacent to it to preserve the inhabitants under his Majesties Obedience and check the excursions from Inniskillen On the 〈◊〉 of October A party of 150 Foot were detached under the command of Lieutenant Coll. Stapylton and Captain H●gh Macnemarra to Relieve and bring off the 500 French that Schomberg had caused to be stript and carried by water to Carlingford suspecting they had a design of changeing their party The march was difficult and hazardous For they could not avoid the English camp but by a detour of at least 30 miles and that through almost impassable Mountains nevertheless they Marched cheerfully ouer them to a vale within six miles of Carlingford where making a hault to fix their Arms and cover their Primeing against a shower of rain that hung over their heads a party of the Enemy came upon them and being demanded whom they were For they answered they were For King William so are we said stapylton with purpose to take his oppertunity of Surprizeing them but the Zealous Souldiers ignorant of his Meaning declar'd loudly they were For King James and made good their words with a Volley 14 they killed on the spot Seized all their Arms and made Eight Prisoners without Receiveing a wound On the 5th of October Forrage becoming now scarse the King thought fit to return to Atherdee and on the 6th very betimes in the Morning the Army was in a Rediness to March But the smoak of the Soldiers Hutts set on Fire by Command made their first setting out a Little Incomodious and Difficult but that was soon over For when they saw Clear they easily fell into their Ranks and Marched in great Order The Right Wing of the Horse and Dragoones with 〈◊〉 Brigade● of Foot the Canon and all the Kings Equipage by Mapastown bridge The left Wing with the reserve of the Foot and all the Baggage of the Army by the Road that led to the Bridge of Tallanstown and that Afternoon the Foot incamped in two Lines near Atherdee having the River and a long Morass before them The Horse and Dragoons for convenience of forrage and shelter were sent to three Villages lying on the right of the Infantry and the Brigade of Foot that made the Corp de reserve to another Village beyond them But the next day His Majesty visiting that part of the Army thought the Corps de reserve as indeed it was too far advanced and therefore gave orders that they should return to the Village where the Duke of Tyrconnel's Regiment lay and sent the Lord Dongan's Dragoons with three other Battalions of Foot from the Camp to reinforce that Post He then ordered a Brest-work to be made at the end of a narrow Causeway that passes thorough the Bogg and a guard of 60 foot to defend it Collonel Purcell's and Sir James Cotters Dragoons were posted on the Left at Dowdstown and Peppardstown to secure the two Bridges The Earl of Abercorn's Regiment of Horse stood incamped at a small Village between the two Lines But the Horses of that and Collonel John Parker's Regiment being very much harrassed and no danger appearing from the Enemy His Majesty thought fit to send them to their Winter Quarters The King having reason to believe that Mareschal Schomberge would not easily quit Dundalk called a Council of War and proposed the fortifying of Atherdee to hinder his advance and to facilitate the carrying on of the War the earlier in the Spring Some of the chief Officers were of opinion against it yet the Duke of Tyrconnell who chiefly seconded the King's resolutions of marching from Tredath with his Army in order to engage the Enemy to which under God we owe all the success we have met with joyning in opinion with His Majesty the work was set on foot and that place made so strong a Frontier before the King left it that tho Schomberge stayed for almost ten days after at Dundalk where he lost by Distemper above 1000 men yet made no attempt upon the Party left at Atherdee under the Command of Major General Boiselot but was glad to make a safe retreat with the reviving part of his Army leaving many sick behind and a number of dead Bodies unburied Imprimatur Will. Talbott