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B06226	A true copy of a letter, from the justices of the Kingdom of Ireland, to the Privy Council of Scotland.	Cuningsbey, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Porter, Charles, Sir, d. 1696.	1691 (1691)	Wing T2615A; ESTC R185627	3,979	10

A True COPY of a LETTER From the Justices of the Kingdom of Ireland to the Privy Council of Scotland Dated Dublin-Castle 25th of July 1691. Our very good Lord WE herewith send your Lordship a particular Account of the late great Victory obtained against the Irish and have this only to add that the General being sat down before Galway writes us word the 22 instant That the Fort being Storm'd without the Town the twentieth in the morning the Town sent out in the Afternoon to Treat and Agreed to Surrender on Sunday Morning next at six of the Clock and immediatly all the Out-works were delivered in to our Possession and all their Cannon drawn from their Walls and five Hostages delivered We believe Limmerick is the next place he intends though we have some reason to hope they will soon capitulat We are my Lord Your Lordships most humble Servants Charles Porter Tho Cuningsbey A Particular and Full Account of the Routing the whole Irish Army at Aghrim upon Sunday the 12th of July 1691. With a List of the Principal Persons that were Killed and taken Prisoners Published by Authority UPon Friday the 10th instant our Army moved from Athlone and Encamped that night at Killcashell 7 Miles nearer to the Enemy whence the General went to view the Pass at Ballynasloe and perceiving the Parties the Enemy had abroad to withdraw upon our advancing he went on to Leagh a large Mile beyond Ballynasloe Upon Saturday the 11th about 4 in the morning we decamped marched to Ballynasloe and encamped all long on the Roscommon side of the River Suck The General went to the Hills of Knockdunloe in the County of Galway half a mile distant from our Camp whence he could perceive the Enemies Out-Guards upon the Hills of Corbally who upon our approach retreated to the Isker of Liscapull two miles beyond Ballynasloe upon which he went forward to the Hills of Corbally whence he could take a view of the Enemies Camp which was formed beyond Aghrim about three miles beyond Ballynasloe and extended it self from the Church of Killcommodan on their right to a place called Gurtnapory on the left above 2 miles in length a Mapp of which being drawn it presented it self thus On their left ran a small Brook having steep Hills and little Bogs on each side next to which was a large red Bogg almost a mile over at the end of which stood the Castle of Aghrim commanding the way to their Camp which was passable no way for Horse but just at the Castle by reason of a River which running through a moist ground made the whole a Morass or Bogg which extended it self all along to the Enemies right where was also another Pass called Vrachree having a rising ground on each side of it The Enemy encamped upon the side of a Hill very well Ditched and the Ditches as well lined with Shot to the very edge of the Bogg by which it appears they were so well posted as not to be easily attackt Upon Sunday July 12 about 6 in the morning we marcht but Orders were given that our Tents and Baggage should remain where they were the Foot marched over the Bridge the English and French Horse and Dragoons over the Foord above the Bridge the Dutch Danish Horse Dragoons over two Foords beneath the Church with directions as soon as they were over the River to put themselves in order of Battle which they did on the Lands of Garbally Rathboy and Dunlow in which order the morning proving hazie we stood till 11 at noon when the General Commanding the Army to move forward advanced himself before the Army to view the posture of the Enemy and perceiving some of their out-Scouts upon the Hills ordered a Party to beat them thence upon whose advance the Enemy retired from Hill to Hill within half a mile of the Camp by which means the General had the opportunity from a high Hill on the right of the Enemy to view their whole Camp which he found Posted as before described and that he was under a necessity of gaining a Pass to the right of the Enemy where he perceived some of them posted to which purpose he ordered a Danish Captain with 16 Horse to force it who being repulsed by the Enemy the General ordered to be succoured by 200 of Sir Albert Cunningham's Dragoons who having secured some Ditches near the said Pass and having also briskly charged the Enemy obliged them to retire to a little Grove whither the Enemy seeing their danger had sent a fresh Party to sustain them which our General perceiving ordered Collonel Eppinger's Dragoons to get between them and their Camp which had been effected but that it was too timely discovered by the Enemy who had sent out fresh Detachments enough to cut off our Dragoons but they were quickly seconded by a Party of the Earl of Portland's Horse who behaved themselves with great bravery but lost several Men and Horse in this part of the Action upon which both sides sending fresh Detachments to sustain their Parties what at first was only a Skirmish had by this time engaged a considerable Body and after an hours Dispute obliged the Enemy to retire in great disorder over the Brook that flanked the right of their Army without any great loss to us though the Enemy all the while fired upon us with some of their great Guns from the Hills of Killcommodan The General perceiving the disorder of the Enemy resolved to attack them on their right Wing by that means hoping to draw off the strength of the Enemy to the Right and then with our right Wing to fall in upon their left and thereby engage their whole Army The left Wing of our Army being most Forraigners was Commanded by his Highness the Duke of Wirtemberg and the Right by the Major-Generals Maccay Talmash and Ruvigny the General himself with great diligence moving every where giving the necessary Orders and ordering Reinforcements as he saw occasion About half an hour after 4 in the Afternoon our left Wing moved towards the Enemy and by 5 were got up to their Ditches well lined with the Enemies Musqueteers which notwithstanding their advantageous Post and their defending themselves better than usually or than indeed we expected and the opposition made by the Lord Galway's Regiment of Horse and the Royal Regiment of Foot so called Our men soon forced and made them give ground so that our General 's design had its intended effect in drawing off most of the Enemies Horse from their Left to succour their Right which though it much damaged Colonel Earls's Colonel Herbert's and Colonel Fowlke's Regiments did yet facilitate the Attack of our Right Wing which with a good Body of Horse Foot and Dragoons forced the Pass by Aghrim Castle though defended by a Regiment of Dragoons and so narrow that our Horse were forced to march it by a Defile of two a breast receiving the Enemies Shot with no great

loss till at last recovering the firm part of the Bogg our Men formed a Line and some of them advanced under the Walls of the Castle and lodged themselves in a dry Ditch though the Enemy poured Volleys of their small Shot upon them the rest of that Brigade with great bravery attackt their Ditches and pressed so far upon the Enemy beyond what they ought to have done unless they had been supported with Horse that they were forced back to the Bogg but when they were re-inforced by our Horse who charged through the Enemy with Sword in hand as did also our Horse on the left Wing they drove the Enemy to the top of the Hill where their Horse and Foot mixed with ours but after a short dispute we totally routed them and beat their Horse out of the Field who never drew B●●t for 7 miles leaving their Foot to be cut in pieces They began to run as it grew duskish and our men pursued them about 4 miles Their Foot were entirely broke and those who ran away after their usual manner threw away their Arms Aghrim Castle being taken many there in were put to the Sword and Colonel Bourke his Major 11 Officers and 40 private men were taken Prisoners Our General shewed extraordinary Conduct Diligence and Bravery throughout this whole Action Our Officers behaved themselves with great Resolution and so did the Private Soldiers who were not in the least daunted notwithstanding all the advantages which the Enemy had over them in number in their strong Entrenchments or in the difficulty of attacking them In short never did Army fight better nor can we find Actions fitter to compare with this than those of their own former performance viz. the forcing of the Boyne and Shannon Our loss considering the greatness of the Action was not very much having but 62 killed among whom were Major-General Holstaple Colonel Herbert Colonel Mongatts Major Deverish Major Pettit Major Colt Major Cornwall and Major Fox with several Captains and Subalterns and about 950 wounded 4 parts of 5 whereof will be easily cured and soon fit for Service In this Action we took from the Enemy 11 Standards 32 Colours all their Cannon Ammunition Tents and Baggage We killed also of the Enemy about 7000 and took about 450 Prisoners The Principal of those killed and taken Prisoners are as followeth viz. PRISONERS General and Field-Officers Twenty Four viz. Lord Duleek Lord Slaine Lord Buffin Sir Nicolas Brown commonly called Lord Killmare Major General Dorrington Maj. Gen. John Hamilton Brigadier Tuite Coll. Walter Bourke Coll. Gorden O Neal. Coll. Butler of Kil●●sh Coll O Conaell Lieut Col. Edmund Madden Lieutenant Collonel John Chapell Lieutenant Collonel John Butler Lieut. Coll. Magennis L●eut Coll. Rossiter Lieut. Coll. Maguirt Major Patrick Lawless Major Kelly Major Grace Major William Bourke Major Edmond Butler Major Edmond Broghall Major John Hewson Captains Twenty-Six viz. Walier Byrne Walter Bourke Hagan Charles Mac Carty Comyn Mac Donagh C●imon Bellew Fitz Patrick Blanshfield Peter Anthony James Garvan Thomas Plunket Huhbert Dillon John Minnis Shea. Tearn Darby Grady Miles Burke John Gould James Bater Heugh Mac Dormot Walter Blake Walter Boukre William Mac Evoy Bryan Morphy Lieutenants twenty four viz. Henry O Neal. Thomas Walter Edmond Brenan Mac Carty Purcel Murphy Mac Manus Rafter Mac Mahon Daffy Halluly Quirke Tobyn Devy Walsh Walcott Butler Cahan Bourke Barry Mac Loghlin Cantlin Dunn Brody Cornets five Ensigns twenty three Quarter-masters four viz. CORNETS Edward Neile Terenee Neile Daulton Jourdan Quin. ENSIGNS Ward Fitz Patrick Moore Mac Loghlin Lavallin Paine Freeman Stretch Verdon Aylmer Mac Loghlin Lincy Shane Archdeacon Meagher Bourke Bourke Kelly Mac Evoy Daniel Fleming Daly Loghlin QUARTER-MASTERS Byrne Higgin Mac Gwire Bigly Wholan Adjutant General and Field Officers 24 Captains 26 Lieutenants 24 Ensigns 23 Cornets 5 Quarter-Masters 4 Adjutant 1   Officers Prisoners 107   Privste Soldiers about 300   KILLED Lord Killmallock Lord Galway Brigdier Connell Brig Will. Mansfield Barker Brig Hen Mac John O Neal. Coll. Walter Nugent Coll. Charles Moore his Lieutenant Collonel and Major Coll. David Bourke Coll. Ulick Bourke Coll. Cohannaught Mac Guire Coll. O Gara Coll Arthur Coll. Felix O Neil Coll. Mahowny Coll. Cormack O Neil Lieut Coll. Morgan Major Purcell Major O Donnel Sir John Evirard Besides a great Number of Captains and Subaltern Officers Brigadier Talbor AND Sir Morice Eustace Both desperately Wounded but made their Escape to Limmerick And 't is generally reported the French General St. Ruth was killed by a Great Shot Printed at Dublin and Re-printed at Edinburgh by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to their most excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1691.