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Between the Sieges, 1690-1691 command of the Jacobite forces, ordered the abandonment of the city, b6.t MacElligott refused. There were deep journals on the sieges, one on divisions among the Jacobites on policy, the 1690 siege, a second on Marlborough had obtained permission to tactics and strategy, which were fuelled the intervening year, and a bring a separate force to Ireland for the further by bitter personality clashes. A third on the 1691 siege, the specific objective of taking Cork and major cause of resentment was the failure Treaty of Limerick and its Kinsale with their strategically located to give the overall command to Sarsfield, aftermath. For financial harbours for Irish contacts with France. the 'darling of the army' since his reasons only the first of these He landed at Passage West with over escapade at Ballyneety. There was dissen- could be published. It is 5,000 troops on September 23rd and sion on the Williamite side also, with proposed to publish articles began the siege of Cork on the following Wiirtemberg, the Danish commander, received for the other two in day. He was reinforced by 1,200 Danish claiming seniority over Marlborough. and Dutch cavalry and over 3,600 infantry, Eventually the somewhat risky com- mostly Danes and Dutch with some promise of allowing each to command on French Huguenots. These had been alternative days was agreed, though n the immediate aftermath dispatched by Ginkel, who had succeeded tension between them, and among their of the unsuccessful siege of to the Williamite command in Ireland after respective forces, continued. Limerick in August 1690, the departure of Solms, the man whom The siege of Cork lasted less than a the Williamites received an William had appointed when he hastily left week and there is general agreement that important morale boost Limerick on August 30th. the city's vulnerability as a low lying through the capture of the two major Cork was thus attacked from both settlement commanded by high ground on southern port towns of Cork and Kinsale. sides of the River Lee; Marlborough and both sides of the river made a prolonged It is to be doubted that William himself his English troops on the south and the resistance impossible. MacElligott tried to derived much satisfaction from these Danes and Dutch on the north. The obtain favourable surrender terms, initially victories, as they provided an unwelcome Jacobite garrison in Cork consisted of asking for retreat with the full honours of contrast with his own humiliating failure about 4,000 men commanded by Colonel war. He should have been able to exploit at Limerick and were achieved by the Earl Roger MacElligott, a Kerry-born officer the divisions among the Williamites, as of Marlborough, a man for whom he had who had served with James I1 in England Wiirtemberg was inclined to offer more no great affection and with whom his in 1688, been imprisoned by William, had favourable terms than Marlborough, but military skills were unflatteringly escaped to France and returned to Ireland in the end his vacillation resulted in the compared. with James in 1689. garrison being forced to surrender Before the debacle at Limerick, The Duke of Berwick, who had unconditionally. Both the captured A Prospect of Charles Fort, Kinsale, 1685, by Thomas Phillips. National Library of Ireland. The North Gate at Kilmallock, 1822. Limerick Museum. combatants and the civilians were harshly In October 1690, both armies withdrew Shannon from any other incursions. treated and the city was extensively behind frontier lines, though some For both armies the winter of 1690-91 plundered. military activity did take place during the was one of considerable suffering. The Williamites followed up this winter. The Jacobites occupied Limerick Food was scarce, clothing inadequate impressive victory with an immediate and Kerry and the whole area west of the and living quarters squalid in the assault on Kinsale. This town was not Shannon in Connacht and Clare. The extreme. Tyrconnell, who had gone to walled and depended for its defence on Williamites held most of the rest of France with Lauzun in September, two forts, one on either side of the har- Munster, Leinster and Ulster in a line returned to Limerick in January 1691. bour. The elderly commander, Sir Edward from the Cork coast through Cashel and He not only took control of the civil Scott, decided to abandon the town and Mullingar up to Enniskillen and west from government but also of the army, as both garrison and inhabitants fled to the there along the Erne to Ballyshannon. A Berwick had left Ireland. Not even the forts. The older James fort was quickly no-man's land frontier lay between them grant of the title Earl of Lucan lessened captured, largely through the skill and from the Shannon to the Williamite line. the anger of Sarsfield at being denied bravery of the Danes, which Marlborough This area was constantly plundered and command of the army yet again. petulantly refused to acknowledge. The raided by both armies and the inhabitants The resentments, bitterness and newer Charles fort held out for two weeks suffered severely. The Danes, the jealousies among the Jacobites were and in direct contrast to the situation in Rapparees and Sarsfield, who authorised intensified by the various peace initiatives Cork, Wiirtemberg wanted the garrison to much of the looting on the Jacobite side, attempted during the winter period. surrender as prisoners of war, but Marl- were the subjects of particular criticism. Ginkel was anxious to end the war quickly borough allowed them to march out with Towards the end of 1690, William and felt that generous terms should be their arms and retreat to Limerick. This is ordered attacks on the Irish positions in offered to Catholic landowners. He used a usually explained by his relief at obtaining counties Kerry and Sligo. This was aimed Catholic barrister, John Grady, as an the surrender and his desire to return to at putting pressure on the leaders to intermediary and was informed that if England to be feted for his achievement. negotiate a settlement. Ginkel argued, Catholics were assured of keeping their The Jacobites had suffered two major with greater insight, that an offer of estates and were promised the religious reverses, partly at least through their own further concessions would be a better ploy liberties enjoyed during the reign of ineptitude, and predictable recriminations to achieve this end. The attack on Kerry Charles I1 then they would surrender. ensued. Berwick bore the brunt of the was undertaken in January 1691 by the Wiirtemberg even declared that the war in criticisms, particularly for not coming to Danes under Major General Tettau. The Ireland could be ended by the stroke the aid of Kinsale. However, his original Irish retreated to Ross castle near of a pen. This view was unrealistically advice to burn Cork should probably have Killarney. Tettau, with no heavy guns, was optimistic. William was not prepared to been heeded and it was certainly forced to withdraw without achieving make such concessions, as he wanted disastrous to have weakened Kinsale by anything. Ginkel and Wiirtemberg took a Irish land for himself and to satisfy the the sending of two regiments to Cork, force of 4,000 Danes, Dutch and French to ambitions both of the English House of which clearly, due to its location, could not attack Kilmallock, which had been re- Commons and of Irish Protestants. With have withstood a long siege. Even then occupied by the Jacobites. The garrison the failure of the winter military activities Charles fort could have held out much promptly abandoned the town, burning it and their concomitant aim of pressurising longer, but Scott decided on surrender as they left. The plan to attack Sligo was the Irish, William adopted a somewhat when the besieging army was not attacked also unsuccessful, due largely to the more flexible approach. In the early by Berwick. To add to Jacobite problems, incompetence of the Williamite generals, spring, Ginkel was authorised to issue a Kilmallock had also been inadequately Douglas and Lanier. After that, Sarsfield declaration that Irish Catholics had defended and unnecessarily lost. very skilfully defended the line of the nothing to fear either in terms of religion of pontoons, which he felt would be needed for crossing the Shannon. It was not until June 18th that he linked up with the Danes who had assembled at Cashel. The combined force numbered about 18,000. Athlone was really two walled towns, termed, as in Limerick, English and Irish town. The former lay on the eastern bank of the Shannon in Leinster, while the laQer was in Connacht on the western side, The Leinster town only put up tokeh resistance, mainly to give St. Ruth time to bring up the main body of the Irish army. The camp was pitched two miles west of the Irish town, on which the defence was concentrated. The Williamite attack on the walls and castle of the Connacht town began on June 21st, and for the next ten days the heaviest bombardment of any stronghold in Irish history took place. It was estimated that 600 bombs, 12,000 cannon balls and tons of mortar stones were fired. Despite this massive attack, which reduced most of the defences to The Siege of Athlone, 1691, from George Story's Continuation of the rubble, the Williamites could not take the Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland. 1693. town without crossing the river. The long Limerick Museum. awaited pontoon bridge could not be erected due to fire from the Jacobites and or property and would obtain reasonable ammunition, food and uniforms, there the existing bridge became the main terms if they capitulated.
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