History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803Baily Brothers, 1854 - 477 pàgines |
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... Army CHAPTER XXIV . Suppression of the Western Insurrection - Military Executions - Contrast between the Wexford and Mayo Rebels CHAPTER XXV . Private Diary of the Bishop of Killalla , from the Landing to the Surrender of the French Army ...
... Army CHAPTER XXIV . Suppression of the Western Insurrection - Military Executions - Contrast between the Wexford and Mayo Rebels CHAPTER XXV . Private Diary of the Bishop of Killalla , from the Landing to the Surrender of the French Army ...
Pàgina 7
... army to assist the Irish revolutionists , who , on their part , undertook to pay these auxiliaries , and eventually defray the whole expenses of the expedition . Additional powers were now demanded by the Irish executive , and the ...
... army to assist the Irish revolutionists , who , on their part , undertook to pay these auxiliaries , and eventually defray the whole expenses of the expedition . Additional powers were now demanded by the Irish executive , and the ...
Pàgina 11
... army , in the event of the pro- mised descent being effected on the coast of Ireland . On this event the Directory calculated with such certainty in 1797 , that a general order to be ready " was issued through the provincial committees ...
... army , in the event of the pro- mised descent being effected on the coast of Ireland . On this event the Directory calculated with such certainty in 1797 , that a general order to be ready " was issued through the provincial committees ...
Pàgina 23
... army - for which purpose there were few men in Ireland so utterly unfit . " - Barrington's Sketches . * " He had a fine soldier - like person , above the middle size ; his countenance was excellent ; his features regular and engaging ...
... army - for which purpose there were few men in Ireland so utterly unfit . " - Barrington's Sketches . * " He had a fine soldier - like person , above the middle size ; his countenance was excellent ; his features regular and engaging ...
Pàgina 25
... army at York Town , Lord Edward joined the staff of General O'Hara , at St. Lucia ; but after a few months , he left the West Indies , returned home , and was nomina- ted by his brother , the Duke of Leinster , member for the borough of ...
... army at York Town , Lord Edward joined the staff of General O'Hara , at St. Lucia ; but after a few months , he left the West Indies , returned home , and was nomina- ted by his brother , the Duke of Leinster , member for the borough of ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1845 |
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1881 |
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1845 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
afterwards Antrim appeared Arklow arms army arrest attack attempt Ballina body Britain British Captain Carnew castle Castlebar cavalry character Colonel column command committee consequence conspiracy corps death declared defeat Defenders disaffected dragoons Dublin effect Emmet endeavoured enemy Enniscorthy escape execution Father Murphy favour fencibles fire force French friends garrison gentlemen Gorey guns honour Humbert hundred infantry insurgents insurrection Ireland Irish John John Sheares Kilkenny Killalla killed King's kingdom leaders liberty Lieutenant Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald ment miles military militia morning murder Musgrave Neilson never night North Cork Militia officers parliament party persons pikes political prisoners proceeded Protestants rebellion rebels regiment retreat returned Roman Catholics royalists sanguinary shew shot Sir Charles Asgill soldiers spirit surrender taken tion took town treason troops union United Irishmen Vinegar-hill Wexford wounded wretched yeomanry yeomen
Passatges populars
Pàgina 112 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Pàgina 428 - The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish, that it may live in the respect of my countrymen, I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port — when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field in defence of their country and of virtue— this is my hope...
Pàgina 440 - I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Pàgina 427 - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
Pàgina 4 - This society is constituted for the purpose of forwarding a brotherhood of affection, a communion of rights, and a union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and thereby to obtain a complete reform in the legislature, founded on the principles of civil, political, and religious liberty.
Pàgina 429 - ... by which he was actuated in the crime of which he was adjudged guilty. That a judge has thought it his duty so to have done, I have no doubt; but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions...
Pàgina 323 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both ? Have you not marked when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no...
Pàgina 428 - ... for there must be guilt somewhere, whether in the sentence of the Court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, but the difficulties of established prejudice ; the man dies, but his memory lives.
Pàgina 429 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honour and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Pàgina 439 - I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...