General history of the rebellion of 1798, also a brief account of the insurrection in 18031842 |
Other editions - View all
General History of the Rebellion of 1798, Also a Brief Account of the ... Patrick O'Kelly No preview available - 2016 |
General History of the Rebellion of 1798, Also a Brief Account of the ... Patrick O'Kelly No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
alarm Arklow arms arrest arrived Athy attack barony barracks battle battle of Arklow battle of Ovidstown body bridge brought burned camp cannon Captain Carlow Carnew Carrigrew Castle Castlecomer Catholic cause Coclough colliers Colonel commanded commenced countrymen County Kildare county of Kildare county of Wexford Doorley dragoons Dublin Duncannon Dundas Edward Hay encamped Enniscorthy escaped execution fate fire Fitzgerald force French gaol garrison Gorey Government Grogan Hacketstown Harvey hill infantry inhabitants insurgents insurrection intrepid Ireland Irish Jonah Barrington Kilcullen Kilkea Knockallen Lake leaders Leinster lives Lord Edward Lord Kingsborough marched miles military militia morning murder Murphy Naas Neilson night North Cork numbers officers Oulard party peasantry pikemen pikes prisoners proceeded protection put to death ranks Rathangan regiment retreat Reynolds Roche Santry soldiers soon surrender T. W. Tone Taghmon Theobald Wolfe Tone town of Wexford troops Ulster United army United Irishmen Vinegar-hill Wicklow wounded yeomen cavalry
Popular passages
Page 102 - AS a friend to humanity, I request you will surrender the town of Ross to the Wexford forces, now assembled against that town ; your resistance will but provoke rapine and plunder, to the ruin of the most innocent. Flushed with victory, the Wexford forces, now innumerable and irresistible, will not be controlled, if they meet with resistance.
Page 151 - Your patriotic exertions in the cause of your country have hitherto exceeded your most sanguine expectations, and in a short time must ultimately be crowned with success. Liberty has raised her drooping head : thousands daily flock to her standard : the voice of her children every where prevails. Let us then, in the. moment of triumph, return thanks to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, that a total stop has been put to those sanguinary...
Page 19 - The people of Ireland ; and may government profit by the example of France, and Reform prevent Revolution.
Page 169 - To these proposals, General Lake returned the following answer : — " Lieutenant-General Lake cannot attend to any terms offered by rebels in arms against their Sovereign ; while they continue so, he must use the force intrusted to him, with the utmost energy for their destruction. " To the deluded multitude he promises pardon, on their delivering into his hands their leaders, surrendering their arms, and returning with sincerity to their allegiance, (Signed) "G. LAKE.
Page 108 - It is asserted that eighty-seven wounded peasants, whom the king's army had found on taking the town, in the market-house, used as an hospital, had been burned alive ; and that in retaliation the insurgents burned above a hundred royalists in a barn at Scullabogue. Amongst the remarkable and melancholy examples of the abuse of martial law, and the discretionary power given to military officers in Ireland, one which occurred on the taking of Wexford is a peculiarly fit subject for observation : Mr....
Page 152 - In the moment of triumph, my countrymen, let not your victories be tarnished with any wanton act of cruelty ; many of those unfortunate men now in prison were not your enemies -from principle ; most of them, compelled by necessity, were obliged to oppose you ; neither let a difference in religious sentiments cause a difference among the people. Recur to the debates in the Irish House of Lords...
Page 165 - Hay, appointed by the inhabitants of all religious persuasions, to inform the Officer commanding the King's troops that they are ready to deliver up the Town of Wexford without...
Page 151 - Nothing now, my countrymen, appears necessary to secure the victories you have already won, but an implicit obedience to the commands of your chiefs; for, through a want of proper subordination and discipline, all may be endangered. " At this eventful period, all Europe must admire, and posterity will read with astonishment, the heroic acts achieved by people strangers to military tactics, and having few professional commanders : but what power can resist men fighting for liberty...
Page 161 - ... murder. This interposition came sometimes from a quarter whence it was least expected. Thus Philip Roche was in appearance fierce and sanguinary ; yet several persons now living owe their lives to his boisterous interference. An instance may serve in some small degree to illustrate the tumultuous transactions of these calamitous times. Two protestants, in a respectable situation in life, brothers, of the name of Robinson, inhabitants of the parish of Killegny, being seized and carried to Vinegar-hill...
Page 57 - Martial law was now proclaimed, and the courts of justice closed, except on civil subjects. The barristers pleaded in their uniform, with their side-arms, one of the judges (Baron Medge) appeared on the bench in the same uniform, the names of the inmates of every house were pasted on every door, fabricated reports of massacres and poisonings were daily propagated, the city assumed, altogether, the appearance of one monstrous barrack, or slaughter-house.