Soon after this exploit, Colonel Hastings marched out of Cork with a party of the regiment and some militia, and seized upon Drummaneer, an important post near the Blackwater.
On the 12th of September, Captain John Orefeur left Cork, with a detachment of the regiment, to scour the country; and arriving in the vicinity of Lismore, he encountered a numerous body of armed partisans of King James, whom he instantly attacked, killed twenty of their number upon the spot, and put the remainder to flight, which so alarmed the armed bands of Roman Catholic peasantry, that they did not again appear in that part of the country for some time.
While the regiment was engaged in these services, the Irish army was defeated at Aghrim, and the city of Limerick was besieged by King William’s forces. The surrender of this fortress, completed the deliverance of Ireland from the power of King James, and terminated the war in that country.
The Thirteenth regiment was relieved from garrison duty at Cork on the 22nd of December, and embarked for England, where it arrived towards the end of that month.
1692
At this period, the desire of conquest, with the disposition, by adding city to city and province to province, to form a vast empire, and to control the nations of Europe with despotic sway, marked the policy of the French court: this rendered it necessary for the British monarch to engage in war to preserve the civil and religious liberties of Europe; and while the army of the confederate states, commanded by King William, confronted the forces of Louis XIV. in the Netherlands, the Thirteenth were selected to form part of an expedition against the French coast, under Lieut.-General the Duke of Leinster (afterwards Duke Schomberg). The French fleet had been defeated a short time previously off La Hogue, and Louis XIV. had anticipated a descent, and had assembled so many forces on the coast, that the Duke of Leinster did not venture to land his troops. After menacing the coast of France at several points, the fleet sailed to Ostend, where the regiment landed on the 22nd of August. The Thirteenth and a number of other corps advanced a few stages up the country, when the French withdrew from Furnes and Dixmude, and the English took possession of, and fortified these towns.
When the army went into winter quarters, the Thirteenth were ordered to return to England, and they were employed on home service during the remainder of the war.
1693
After the loss of the battle of Landen, in July, 1693, by the confederate army under King William, the Thirteenth regiment sent a draft of one hundred and fifty men to Flanders, to replace the losses of the regiments which had suffered most on that occasion.
1695