Author: Nicholas BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derry (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda
Author: Nicholas BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derry (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography and Saxon and Northern Literature, Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year 1799
Author: Richard GoughA Catalogue of the Books, Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature,
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The remainder of the collection was sold in 1810.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Author: John GrenhamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The New Ireland Review
Author: Raw Generals and Green Soldiers
Author: Pádraig LenihanPublisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1804516465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The eleven years of conflict that engulfed Ireland (1641-53) can be seen as a drama in three acts, each of which drew Ireland into progressively closer alignment with the Civil Wars (1642-52) in the other two Stuart kingdoms, Scotland and England. The first act in the Wars of Religion in Ireland (1641-53) began in October 1641 with a rising in Ulster and shuddered to a halt in September 1643 when the insurgents, now embodied as the Confederate Catholics, agreed a ceasefire with Charles I’s representative in Ireland. This study is confined to Act One to manage its sheer scope and scale. Not a single county in Ireland was unscathed by war and in summer 1642 there were more men under arms than there ever had been or would be again. Moreover, Act One was singularly nasty. Insurgent slaughter of Protestant settlers in the winter of 1641-42 quickly gained canonical status. English and Scots armies routinely massacred natives in the spring and summer that followed. After their uprising failed, the Irish in 1642 were attacked by English and Scottish armies that were bigger, in aggregate, than any before or since. And that includes the armies of Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange. Lacking munitions, forced to disperse their strength, and usually outfought in open battle, the Confederate Catholics pushed back in war-as-process and food-fights in which castles dominating a chequerboard of hinterlands jostled with hostile neighbors. The Catholics were winning this small war when the music stopped in 1643. This is a study of the Catholic armies in Act One through a succinct narrative which reveals underlying pattern and purpose in what would otherwise be one apparently random battle, siege, skirmish, massacre, and cattle raid after another, devoid of form or meaning. The narrative focuses in and out, from the strategic through the operational down to the tactical and what happened in a particular place on a given day. The narrative also shifts from the southern or Leinster/Munster theater to the northern or Connacht/Ulster theater. Meaning is disclosed through narrative in which the strengths and shortcomings of the Irish armies become clearer. The quotation in the title sets up two such shortcomings, of leaders and led. One reason why the Catholics lost so many battles may be that their generals fought battles when they needn’t have, showed a fatal preference for the all-out attack, and did not always deploy in a manner that let their army’s components, pike, shot and horse act in mutual support. Another reason may be that the rankers were less invested in the Catholic cause than their officers. But the establishing quotation is followed by a question mark. Perhaps the real question to be asked is how the Catholic armies achieved so much rather than why they failed.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
Author: A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
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