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Thomas Pakenham
General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old
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Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
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Thomas Pakenham
Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old
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United Irish Leade who persuaded the French to try to Liverate Ireland
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France
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one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
William Pitt
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Britain-s war-weary Prime Minister
Ireland,he knew,was the weakest link in Britain-s line of defence against France
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760
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Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Lord Camdern
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the Irish Viceroy,high-minded and humane,but unterly demoralized by trying to govern Ireland.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Edward Cooke,under-secretary at Dublin castle
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More robust thn Camden,he tended to side with Camden-s anti Catholic advisers
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Lord Castlereagh Pitt-s 28-year-old Protege and acting chief secretary
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Inexperienced as he was,he had to manage the wild Irish gentry who controlled the Dublin Parliament
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Lord Clare
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the formidable Lord Chancellor and one of the leader of the informal cabinet
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The Irish House fo Commons addressed by Henry Grattan in 1780 during the campaign to force Britain to give Ireland free trade and legislative independ
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Grattan,and many of the MPs,are wearing Volunteer uniform to show they mean business.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Henry Grattan
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once the darling of the Irish Parliament but now denounced as a covert United Irishman
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London
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But both men had now decide that it was a waste of breath to speak in their respective Parliaments
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
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Younger brother of the great Kidare magnate,the Duke of Leinster, and first cousin of James Fox
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Arthur O-Connor,Lord Edward-s ally
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who left for London-Perhaps bound for France
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
John Sheares,radical barrister
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With his brother Henry he supposedly joined the new Executive after the arrest of most of the United Irish Leaders at Bond-s House.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The Port of Brest
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the naval base from which the French sent their expeditions to invade Ireland.
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Napoleon Bonaparte during his victorious campaign in Italy
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After Hoche-s Sudden death in
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19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Dublin Castle in the 1790s,seat fo the Viceroy and hub of Briish Power
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But it was a castle only in name and quite indefensible
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background
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On the eve of the rebellion Dublin-s Population was estimated at 200000,making Dublin the second city of the empire
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham
The Royal Exchange
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Dublin in the 1790s
the centre of fashionable life.Despite the threat of rebellion,the city was wide open to attack ,and none of the bridges had
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19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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