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Thomas Pakenham
General Lake
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The heavy-handed English general who succeeded Abercromby as Irish commander-in-chief
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
On 19 May,Lord Edward Fitzgerald
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the reputed commander in chief of the United Irish armies,Stabbed to death Captain Ryan who was sent t arrest him and was then shot and mortally wounded by Town Major Sirr
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Kildare rebels piking an old man
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George Crawford,and his granddaughter,another scene from Cruikshank
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Loyalists awaiting attack by the rebels on a country house in Wicklow
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A contemporary watercolour by an eye-witness,Caroline Hamilton,showing how ware is an odd mixture of terror and boredom
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
United Irishmen in Training
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Gillray-s carica ture,Published in 1798
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
United Irishmen upon Duty
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Another Gillray caricature of 1798
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Erin Go Brach
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James Gillray-s caricature of an Irish rebel,often erroneously said to be Grattan
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Father Murphy,
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the United Irish leader in Wexford
showing his flock what he thought of heretic bullets
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Wexford rebels helping themselves at the table of the Bishop of Ferns
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By Cruikshank
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Rebels dancing the Carmagnolle in a captured house by cruikshank
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19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5
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About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The Battle of Arklow on 9 June,the Turning point of the Wexford rising
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An army of Wexford rebels
led by Father Murphy and reupted 19000 Strong,stormed the Wicklow borker town Like madmen and were Flung back with huge losses.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait
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As commander of the United army of Antrim he was one of the few original political leaders of the movement to take part in a battle
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Belfast Assembly Rooms
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where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798
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Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops
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Gerneral Nugent wave to some dragoons rideing in with the rebel-s Liberty standards
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford
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on 20 June,
ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
General John Moore
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later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798
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painted in the 1880s
The Hessians were German mercenaries,notorious for atrocities against unarmed men and women
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880
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Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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