On Tuesday, April 25th, reinforcements began to arrive from the
Curragh and from England. A cordon was drawn round the north of the city, and a line of posts established from the west to the centre at Trinity College. But in the south-east the 178th Brigade, marching from Kingstown, was fiercely opposed. The 7th and 8th Sherwood Foresters, who were ordered to clear a way over the canal bridge into Lower Mount Street at 8 p.m. on the 26th, had two hundred and thirty-four casualties, including eighteen officers, in their assault on the loopholed and barricaded houses held by the rebels. When Sir John Maxwell arrived in Dublin on the 28th he found the central district blazing. With a whole division now at his command, he isolated the chief rebel areas, and used his field-guns on their strongholds to such purpose that on Saturday, April 29th, the rebel leader P. H. Pcarse surrendered uncon- ditionally with most of his men. Macdonagh, in the biscuit factory, gave in next day, and on Monday, May 1st, the troops could begin to search the houses for arms and clear out the stray snipers. The Dublin Commune cost us one hundred and six officers and men killed and three hundred and thirty-four wounded.
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