Excerpt from Record of the North Cork Regiment of Militia: With Sketches Extracted From History of the Times in Which Its Services Were Required, From 1793 to 1880; Compiled and Arranged, From the Most Authentic Sources
The North Cork Regiment, as will be shown in this volume, as a matter of record, did their duty well and bravely, even when the odds were immensly disproportioned against them; and the officers - although, of course, devoid of any military education - by their coolness and presence of mind when face to face with desperate responsibility, proved themselves worthy of having their names handed down to future generations as examples for gallantry and courage, as what act of heroism in modern warfare can exceed that of the gallant Captain Snowe at the Bridge of Enniscorthy, as stated by Froude. The North Cork "had suffered severely, one detachment destroyed at Prosperous, another at Oulart, and still at Enniscorthy they fought splendidly," and had retreated only before numbers enormously superior, and an enemy whose policy was to treat them as traitors to their country, and to refuse all quarter to such of them as came within their savage power; but of this more hereafter.
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