Author: Francis Henry Bennett SKRINEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Irish Brigades, 1689-1745. A Lecture, Etc
Author: Francis Henry Bennett SKRINEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Irish Brigades, 1689-1745
Author: Francis Henry SkrineThe Irish Brigade, 1670–1745
Author: D. P. GrahamPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526727749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
“Highly Recommended . . . an absorbing account of a military formation that became an elite force within the French Army.” —Firetrench Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing of Charles II. With the accession of James II, and the religious politics of who might earn the English crown, they became embroiled in the Jacobite succession crisis, fighting in Ireland, then sent to France under Lord Mountcashel in 1689. With the fall of Limerick in 1691, Patrick Sarsfield led the second “flight” of “Wild Geese” to the continent, to fight in a war for the French, against the Grand Alliance of Europe, in the vain hope that their loyalty might warrant French support in a return to Ireland under a Jacobite king. From the Nine Years War, through the War of the Spanish Succession, and beyond, their descendants would be present at Fontenoy, Culloden and in the Americas, forever destined to fight for a cause and land which had changed beyond recognition. D.P. Graham explains the origins of the brigade and its regiments, the personalities who led them and formed their reputation, and the circumstances of their final dissolution in the aftermath of French Revolution. “An excellent study of the events that led up to the creation of the Wild Geese, and in particular the brutal war in Ireland, a conflict that still has an impact in the present day.” —History of War
The Irish Brigade 1670-1745
Author: D. P. GrahamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781526766243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryCatalogue of the War Office Library: Subject-index. Comp. by F. J. Hudleston. [1912
Author: Great Britain. War Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
Book Description
The Rising of 1745
Author: Charles Sanford TerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description