Note 202 — Chapter L · JAMES II. IN IRELAND, 1689
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Stevens says 1500 English, Scotch, and Irish were landed, but Dangeau (April 20) says ‘plus de quatre mille,’ which must include those in the first fleet. Life of Sir John Leake, chap. iii. Troude, Batailles navales de la France, pp. 189-194. Clarendon and Rochester Correspondence, ii. 45, 65. Captain Mahan observed (Sea-power, chap. iv.) that in spite of Bantry Bay and of the numerical superiority of the French at sea, Rooke never lost command of St. George’s Channel. Schomberg landed unopposed, and ‘the English communications were not even threatened for an hour.’