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Thomas Pakenham General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old mk197
Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
who left for London-Perhaps bound for France
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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Thomas Pakenham John Sheares,radical barrister mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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 mk197
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
guard-posts
19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 |
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19 October 1864?C21 August 1915
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