William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England: The Glorious Revolution by Brian Best

Author:Brian Best [Best, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
ISBN: 9781526795229
Google: J509zgEACAAJ
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2021-08-15T23:46:24.059914+00:00

About 100,000 men were reported to have mobilised to defend their homes within half an hour. This seems unlikely, although many houses were illuminated with torches to prevent the Irish from creeping up and creating mayhem. Tuscany’s ambassador wrote that he had seen the inhabitants:

All discharging firearms, drums beating rapidly, and women, for greater noise, beating warming-pans, pots, and frying pans, and such things; which lie resulted in good against the intention of him who gave it out, because with the city so armed, and with attention to another revolt, it was a wonder the rabble did not create other disorders.

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