 Emmet wore a uniform of a green coat with white facings, white breeches, top-boots, and a cocked hat with feathers.Failing to seize Dublin Castle, which was lightly defended, the rising of some 200 men amounted to a large-scale disturbance in the Thomas Street area.Emmet saw a dragoon being pulled from his horse and piked to death, the sight of which prompted him to call off the rising to avoid further bloodshed.