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Barely 1,200 men had routed 15,000! The few had achieved a decisive victory over the many. But the struggle had only just begun. Many more and still severer trials awaited our starving, weary, sorely-beset soldiers that day. The enemy had numberless fresh and still untried troops at hand.
It amounted to a challenge to Irishmen to prove their competence to settle the most sorely-beset difficulty that afflicted their country. Not only were Irishmen invited to settle this particularly Irish question, but they were given what was practically an official assurance that the Unionist Party would sponsor their agreement, within the limits of reason.
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