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| THE TREATY STONE, LIMERICK.- Whosoever visits "Limerick of the Battles" will observe the large stone, elevated on a pedestal, near the foot of Thomond Bridge. It is the "Treaty Stone," on which Major-General Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, on the part of the Irish, and Lieutenant-General Baron de Ginkel, on the part of Willaim III., of England, signed the celebrated capitulation of Oct. 3, 1691, when the Irish army, that had mad so gallant a rresistance, marched out with all the honors of war, "drums beating, colors flying and matches lighted" to take service in the armies of France. |
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