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the details of which are given in the memoirs of Edmund 
Ludlow, who held a high command in the Republican army, 
and also, at still greater length, by Carte, in his Memoirs of 
the Duke of Ormonde. 
In Richard Burton’s account of ‘* The Battles, Sieges, and 
other considerable Transactions, both Civil and Military, dur- 
ing the late War in Ireland, till the entire reduction of that 
Country,” written in the time of William the Third, the 
attempt of the Duke of Ormonde to take Dublin from the 
garrison of the Commonwealth, in which he so signally failed, 
is more briefly narrated. 
Having ‘‘ made agreement with the Lord Inchiquin and 
his forces, and likewise with those of the Marquis of Clanri- 
card, and the Earl of CastLeHaven,” who were “all joined 
under his command,” he came before Dublin with all his army, 
and obliged Colonel Jones, the Governor, who had drawn out 
some of the garrison to interrupt them, to retire into the city, 
which was indifferently fortified, and plentifully manned both 
with horse and foot. The Duke of Ormonde, wanting money 
and provisions, and his troops, which were composed partly of 
English as well as of Irish soldiers, murmuring against each 
other, he was almost resolved to have marched away, but 
changed his intention on learning that Drogheda was sur- 
rendered, together with Dundalk, the garrison compelling 
Colonel Monk to deliver it, and the soldiers having taken up 
arms for the King. The garrison of Trim also was soon after 
taken from the Parliament; after which the Lord Inchiquin 
brought up his forces, now much increased, to assist the Duke 
of Ormonde at the siege of Dublin. His design was to shut 
up the garrison, then commanded by Colonel Michael Jones, 
within their works, and hinder the cavalry, which formed a 
large proportion of the Republican forces, from getting forage, 
or grazing for cattle without the line which was drawn round 
the town. 
