“Thursday the 25th… The enemy had now mounted more cannon and played most violently without intermission on the Castle”.

John Stevens, Jacobite Captain
John Stevens, Jacobite Captain


“Custume, with eight or ten men, with courage and strength beyond what men were thought capable of, threw down the planks and beams, notwithstanding the continual fire of the enemy.’’

Memoirs Of King James II
Memoirs Of King James II