Another smaller garrison was later allowed in under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lundy, a Scottish Episcopalian, who was appointed military governor.
He began preparing the defences of the city for an attack by the Jacobite army but personally thought Derry could not be defended against a huge army and refused to let in reinforcements from a relief fleet which had arrived in the Foyle, it is also said he sent a letter to the command outside that he would surrender on a summons.
This act resulted in Lundy being viewed as incompetent and also as siding with the Jacobites. Branded a traitor Lundy escaped the city and went to Scotland, he was later arrested and executed at the Tower of London.
It is said he asked for the city to surrender on three occasions and each request was met with a reply 'No Surrender'. James II ordered the siege of the city which lasted days.
After taking advice from his French advisors he returned to Dublin and sent heavy artillery to bombard Derry. A wooden boom was placed across the Foyle to prevent any relief coming in by ship, a relief fleet arrived and attempts were made by the warship Greyhound, she ran aground and took damaging fire from artillery. The rest of the fleet lay offshore for six weeks, the boom was heavily protected by artillery so it posed a difficult obstacle.
On July 28th , the frigate Dartmouth, escorted three merchant ships up the Foyle, the Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem, the Mountjoy hit the boom and ran aground, then after a volley of cannon fire at approaching Jacobites, the recoil refloated the ship and the boom was broke. This allowed the relief ships to reach Shipquay where they unloaded food for the starving city.
By the evening of the 31 July, the Jacobites forces were marching towards Lifford. Marshall Schomberg was sent by William in August with a force of 15, to bolster the Protestant loyalists, William himself arrived in June of with a mixed force of 36, troops which included Irish, English, Danish, Scots, Welsh, Polish, French and Dutch, this led to a series of battles with the eventual defeat of James ll who returned to France.
On 10 December, King James fled London. He was caught, but fled a second time on 23 December and made his way to France.
In London on 13 February , William and Mary were crowned. He took Dublin and marched north with an army of Irish and French Catholics. The Derry City Governor, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lundy , wrote on 15 April that "without an immediate supply of money and provisions this place must fall very soon into the enemy's hands". Lundy called a meeting with several of his most loyal supporters to discuss surrender.
News of the meeting spread, angering many of the citizens. That night, Lundy in disguise and many others left the city and took ship to Scotland. Their slogan was "No Surrender". As the Jacobite army neared, all the buildings outside the city walls were set alight by the defenders to prevent them being used as cover by the besiegers.
The Jacobite army reached Derry on 18 April. King James rode to Bishop's Gate and asked the city to surrender. He was rebuffed, and some of the city's defenders fired at him.
James would ask thrice more, but was refused each time. This marked the beginning of the siege. Cannon and mortar fire were exchanged, and disease took hold within the city. James returned to Dublin and left his forces under the command of Richard Hamilton. Royal Navy warships under Admiral Rooke arrived in Lough Foyle on 11 June, but refused to smash through the defensive boom floating barrier across the River Foyle at Culmore.
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