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But notwithstanding these successes, even the most common necessaries of life were wanting to the victorious armies.

The Irish, in their wild rage against the British planters, had laid waste the whole kingdom, and were themselves totally unfit, from their habitual sloth and ignorance, to raise any convenience of human life.

During the course of six months, no supplies had come from England, except the fourth part of one small vessel's lading.

Dublin, to save itself from starving, had been obliged to send the greater part of its inhabitants to England.

The army had little ammunition, scarcely exceeding forty barrels of gunpowder; not even shoes or clothes; and for want of food, the soldiers had been obliged to eat their own horses.