The fugitives broke down the bridges and burned the ferryboats.

Whole towns, the seats of the Protestant population, were left in ruins without one inhabitant.
The people of Omagh destroyed their own dwellings so utterly that no roof was left to shelter the enemy from the rain and wind.

The people of Cavan migrated in one body to Enniskillen.

The day was wet and stormy.
The road was deep in mire.

It was a piteous sight to see, mingled with the armed men, the women and children weeping, famished, and toiling through the mud up to their knees.