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Contemporary Diary of Siege of Limerick, 1691 (Author: Colonel Michael Richards)

diary-entry 25

Friday, the 18th September.—The bridge is ordered to be removed a musket-shot higher up the river, between the place where the first bridge was made and this latter. At the same time came orders to us to draw off the heavy cannon and mortars down to the artillery ships for embarkation, leaving only three or four mortars, and six twelve-pounders in Cromwell's fort.