Inniskillings join Schomberg's Army

The Williamite War In Ireland, the War of the Two Kings.

Colonel Zachariah Tiffin's Inniskilliners joined the 73 year-old Duke of Schomberg and his force at Loughbrickland on 2 September 1689, before marching south to Newry and Dundalk.

The Chaplain of the English Army described the arrival of the various Inniskillings thus;

'... some on high horses, some on small, some furnished out with a very fair imitation of a regular trooper's equipment, others with nothing military but their arms; some had holsters, while others carried pistols stuck into their belts and the majority of the privates had their servants riding behind them on small country ponies'.

Please click on William's Army salutes the Inniskillings to read about the Duke of Schomberg raising his headdress in personal tribute to the Inniskillings actions against King James's forces in County Roscommon.