Show Notes
Governor Robert Lundy looks to the city's defences. The organisation of regiments of Protestant Anglicans and Presbyterians across eastern Ulster and western Ulster. Tyrconnell sends an army north under Lieutenant General Richard Hamilton. The collapse of defences across eastern Ulster. The flight of refugees as those who have not fled out of Ireland and have the determination to resist, converge through various trials on Londonderry. Governor Lundy resolves to fight.
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