Note 245 — Chapter LIII · JAMES II. AND SCHOMBERG, 1689-1690

Story’s Impartial History. Schomberg’s letters from September to December 1689, in State Papers, Domestic. W. Harbord to William III., October 23, ib. Newsletter of November 28, ib. Luttrell’s Diary, October and November, particularly November 15, where it is noted that letters from Ireland report a mortality of at least 10,000 in the Jacobite army. Evelyn’s Diary, February 19, 1689-90. Mr. Waller’s evidence in Grey’s Debates, November 26. During the terrible days of December 1812, after Napoleon deserted his army, Segur testifies to the extreme demoralisation of the survivors: ‘Tels que les sauvages, les plus forts dépouillaient les plus faibles: ils accouraient autour des mourants, souvent ils n’attendaient pas leurs derniers soupirs.’ Dumont lay in the Dundalk hospital for four weeks with enteric fever and actually recovered.