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... Forces - Twenty Thousand Men , and Nine General Officers -Battle of Enniscorthy - The Forlorn Hope at Vinegar Hill ... force the Government to Terms , 119-148 THE UNITED IRISHMEN . List of Leading Members of the United Irish Society ...
... Forces - Twenty Thousand Men , and Nine General Officers -Battle of Enniscorthy - The Forlorn Hope at Vinegar Hill ... force the Government to Terms , 119-148 THE UNITED IRISHMEN . List of Leading Members of the United Irish Society ...
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... force was clearly evident ; and as England was the open resource of the one , the nature of existing circumstances led Tone to form an alliance with France for the support of the other . At length , in 1794 , the arrest and trial of Rev ...
... force was clearly evident ; and as England was the open resource of the one , the nature of existing circumstances led Tone to form an alliance with France for the support of the other . At length , in 1794 , the arrest and trial of Rev ...
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... force of 2,000 men , which , through Tone's persuasions was augmented to 8,000 and 50,000 stand of arms ; but Hoche , being induced to head the expedition , and determining on deeds worthy of his fame as a general , the force was ...
... force of 2,000 men , which , through Tone's persuasions was augmented to 8,000 and 50,000 stand of arms ; but Hoche , being induced to head the expedition , and determining on deeds worthy of his fame as a general , the force was ...
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... force . " The sword is drawn , the Rubicon is passed , and we have no retreat . We must conquer England or they will conquer us . " How Tone's heart must have throbbed to see this armament , which had leaped from his brain , as did ...
... force . " The sword is drawn , the Rubicon is passed , and we have no retreat . We must conquer England or they will conquer us . " How Tone's heart must have throbbed to see this armament , which had leaped from his brain , as did ...
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... force , and weak in its general - Humbert - proved fatal to the heart whose devoted patriotism propelled them all like arrows from a bow . Humbert landed with 1,200 men at Killalla , on the 22d August , 1798 , wasted valuable time , and ...
... force , and weak in its general - Humbert - proved fatal to the heart whose devoted patriotism propelled them all like arrows from a bow . Humbert landed with 1,200 men at Killalla , on the 22d August , 1798 , wasted valuable time , and ...
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Page 312 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Page 217 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 217 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them...
Page 44 - ... or cut off the nation's right hand ; greatly emancipate or fundamentally destroy. We may talk plausibly to England, but so long as she exercises a power to bind this country, so long are the nations in a state of war ; the claims of the one go against the liberty of the other, and the sentiments of the latter go to oppose those claims to the last drop of her blood.
Page 48 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 340 - I desire that the last act of a proceeding which has occupied so much of the public time should be of short duration. Nor have I the indelicate wish to close the dreary ceremony of a State prosecution with a vain display of words. Did I fear that hereafter when I shall be no more the country...
Page 309 - Our independence must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not support us, they must fall ; we can support ourselves by the aid of that numerous and respectable class of the community, the men of no property . 12.
Page 341 - With my country, then, I leave my memory — my sentiments -my acts — proudly feeling that they require no vindication from me this day. A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Page 342 - I hope to be able, with a pure heart, and a perfect composure, to appear before a higher tribunal — a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as of justice, will preside, and where, my lords, many, many of the judgments of this world will be reversed.
Page 76 - In the language of holy writ there is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is also a time to fight, and that time has now come.