Others cried for quarter, and held up handkerchiefs in token of submission.

But the conquerors were mad with rage; their cruelty could not be immediately restrained; and no prisoners were made till the heaps of corpses rose above the parapets.

The garrison of the fort had consisted of about eight hundred men.

Of these only a hundred and twenty escaped into Limerick.

[118] This disaster seemed likely to produce a general mutiny in the besieged city.