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Excerpt from Dermot Mac Morrogh, or the Conquest of Ireland: An Historical Tale of the Twelfth Century, in Four Cantos
He first sent over Raymond, one of his retinue, with ten knights and seventy archers, who, landing near Waterford, defeated a body of three thousand Irish, that bad ventured to attack him; and as Richard himself, who brought over two hundred horse, and a body of archers, joined a few days after, the victorious English, they made themselves masters of Waterford, and proceeded to Dublin, which was taken by assault. Roderic, in revenge, cut off the head of Dermot's natural son, who had been left as an hostage in his hands; and Richard, marrying Eva, became, soon after, by the death of Dermot, master of the kingdom of Leinster, and prepared to extend his authority over all Ireland. Roderic and the other Irish princes were alarmed at the danger and, com bining together, besieged Dublin, with an army of thirty thousand men but earl Richard, making a sudden sally, at the head of ninety knights, with their followers, put this nu mercus army to rout, chased them off the field, and pursued them with great slaughter. None, in Ireland, now dared to Oppose themselves to the English.
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