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Author : John Cornelius O'CALLAGHAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
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Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017078296
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
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Release : 1870
Category : France
ISBN : BSB:BSB10595419
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
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Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z25622090X
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
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Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1845740173
'The wild geese as Irish mercenaries in Europe were unofficially known, had a deservedly high reputation as fighting men. Forced to flee their native island after the defeat and expulsion of the Catholic King James II, the Irish Brigades followed their master to his exile in France - and remained. Fed by continual drafts of fresh exiles from Ireland, whence they had been driven by anti-Catholic discrimination, the Brigades served both the Stuart - or Jacobite- cause, and that of the French Crown with distinction out of all proportion to their numbers. Eventually the emancipation of the Catholics in Britain and the French revolution dried up the source of recruits and helped ensure that the valuable military services of the Irish would - at least for the 19th and early 20th centuries - be given to Britain. O Callaghan s history is a rich and full one which, as its author insists, cannot fail to be of interest to British, as well as to Irish, readers. Illustrated with several portraits.
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 674 pages
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Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0265419190
Excerpt from History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France: From the Revolution in Great Britain and Ireland Under James II., To the Revolution in France Under Louis XVI Britain, and landed without opposition, November 15th, 1688, at Torbay, in Devonshire. James, though too long deceived respecting the real destination of the Dutch armament, by the treachery of his minister Robert Spencer, Earl of Sun derland, had, nevertheless, assembled a force, that, if well affected towards him, would have been much more than sufficient to overpower the invaders. But, incapacitated from defending his crown by a defection so general as even to include his own daughter Anne, afterwards Queen Anne, and not altogether without reasons to be mindful of the fate of his father, King Charles I., it was soon judged requisite for him to send Off his Queen and infant son piivately to France. After having been turned out of his 01111 palace at White hall, and for some time a piisoner under a Dutch guarth the King likewise considered it necessaiy fo1 him to escape from Eng] 1nd, and seek in France the protection of his cousin german, Louis tdxivf. Early in the following year, 1689, the flight of James, notwithstanding his proposal, in writing, from France, to return. Summon a Parliament, and endeavour, in a regular way, to adjust matteis between himself and his subjects, was voted in England by a Convention, assembled under William's auspices, to have been an abdication of the Crown. The royal dignity, thus pronounced to have been abdicated by James, against his public protest to the contrary, was conferred upon the Prince and Princess of Orange, with the executive power to be vested in the Prince. The Crown of Scotland, still a separate one from the Crown of England, was, in the spring of the same year, also transferred from James (as James VII.) to his son - ln - law and daughter; so that, with the exception of a brave, though comparatively unimportant, Opposition in favour of the deposed Monarch, maintained in a corner of Scotland amongst the Highlanders, the Dutch Prince became the de facto Sovereign of the 2 Protestant kingdoms of Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230464786
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... HISTORY OF THE IRISH BRIGADES IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE. BOOK I. The History Of The Irish Brigades In The Service Of France dates its origin from the war between Great Britain and Ireland occasioned by the change of dynasty in those islands, which commenced with the British Revolution of 1688, and was not accomplished till the acquiescence of Ireland in the results of that Revolution, by the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. In Great Britain, it was but natur-.il that such a change of dynasty should have occurred. At a period when theological differences of opinion had such a considerable influence on tho politics of Europe in feneral, and of Great Britain and Ireland in particular, the reigning overeign of the 2 Protestant kingdoms of England and Scotland, James II., had deserted the Protestant for the Catholic faith, and, through the birth of a male heir, was likely to establish a Catholic dynasty over those 2 Protestant nations; who could hardly be expected to acknowledge a Catholic Monarch, but for the expectation, existing previous to that birth, of his being succeeded, in the course of a few years, by a race of Protestant Princes. In an age when the boundaries between the monarchical and the other branches of the constitution had not been determined with sufficient accuracy, that Monarch had also considered himself justified in exercising powers, which, whatever may have been their defensibility on the score of precedent, were felt to be incompatible with the state of intellectual and political advancement at which Great Britain had then arrived. Under such circumstances, tho applications of the disaffected English and Scotch for assistance against King James were addressed to William, Prince of Orange, and Stadtholder of tho Dutch...
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1342997441
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 046132590X
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:462201879
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
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Release : 1886
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP48S
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
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Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022660633
Author : John Cornelius O'Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 649 pages
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Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:5399735
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021961830
Author : Edward T. Corp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521584620
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Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107026339
This book revisits and analyses the early French Revolution's epic struggle against the Bourbon monarchy and its symbolic culture.