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Title: Memoir of the life and military services of Viscount Lake, baron Lake of Delhi and Laswaree, 1744-1808
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Pearse, Hugh Wodehouse, 1855-
Subjects: Lake, Gerald Lake, Viscount, 1744-1808
Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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device of Irish warfare, broke theirranks by driving among them a number ofhorses and cattle. The garrison were thusdriven back into the town, where the loyalportion of the inhabitants stoutly supportedthem, and after a gallant resistance were finallydriven through the burning streets and fled toWexford, some fourteen miles distant. An officer of the army, who was present at En-niscorthy as a boy and subsequently at the storm-ing of San Sebastian, said that the two sceneswere similar. The loss of life at Enniscorthy wasvery great, three officers and eighty men of thegarrison, besides many of the inhabitants, havingfallen. The town, writes Musgrave,^ themorning after the rebels got possession of it,presented a dreadful scene of carnage and con-flagration ; many bodies were lying dead in thestreets, and others groaning in the agonies ofdeath; some parts of the place were entirelyconsumed, and in others the flames continuedto rage with inextinguishable fury. No less ^ Musgraves Memoirs.
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VINEGAR HILL. 97 than 478 dwelling - houses and cabins wereburned in the town and its suburbs, besidesa great number of stores, malt-houses, and out-oflBces. The rebels now formed a roughly fortifiedencampment on the high ground overlookingEnniscorthy, making their headquarters on thehighest point, called Vinegar Hill, and garrison-ing the town by regular reliefs. As Vinegar Hill was the nearest approachto a military position taken up during therebellion, a description of the hill and its de-fences may be interesting. In a militarypoint of view Vinegar Hill is strong. Highgrounds, gradually rising, are crowned by acone of bold ascent; while the country beneath,being cultivated fields, is divided into numerousenclosures, and intersected by stone walls, hedges,and trenches. On the apex of the hill stoodthe ruins of a windmill, and round the upperheight some rude field-works were thrown up,as well as on a lower ridge which the rebelsoccupied as part of their position. For defenceby irreg

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