Die französische Invasion Irlands in 98 Blätter der ungeschriebene Geschichte, eine heroische Bemühen und eine verlorene Gelegenheit, die England Gabel werfen. mys Kräfte atCastlebar stündlich erhöht wurden. Allgemeine Hutch - inson dort angekommen war, sagten sie, mit seinem Galwaydivision und Verstärkungen waren ständig melden Sie - 1 Musgraves Memoiren, Seite 583. ? 2 FRANZÖSISCHE INVASION IRLANDS. Ihm ing.1 Dies war daher keine Zeit für dilly-dallying. Nach ein paar Stunden ruhen die Französische gen, mit seiner gesamten Korps, aus Ballinatoward der Hauptstadt von Mayo verschoben. Es waren drei oclockin am Nachmittag und threateni

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The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . mys forces atCastlebar were hourly increasing. General Hutch-inson had arrived there, they said, with his Galwaydivision, and reinforcements were constantly join- 1 Musgraves Memoirs, page 583. ?2 FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND. ing him.1 This was, therefore, no time for dilly-dallying. After a few hours rest the French gen-eral, with his entire corps, moved out of Ballinatoward the capital of Mayo. It was three oclockin the afternoon, and threatening clouds were gath-ering on the horizon. The heavens, the landscape, and the prospects of the marching hundreds seemedequally gloomy. 1 These reinforcements comprised the troops mentioned by Corn-wallis in his letter of August 25th to the Duke of Portland. Sev-eral regiments, he wrote, were moving from the southeast part ofthe island toward Connaught before we heard of the landing of theFrench. 0 an-2 I CHAPTER V. The Theatre of Operations—Weary March of the French and Irish—Scenes in Castlebar—The Battle—Panic and Flight of theBritish.. UMBERTS theatre of op-erations belonged to one ofthe most picturesque por-tions of Ireland. A remotecorner of the country, littlevisited by outsiders, its rug-ged aspect had remainedunchanged for centuries.Its physical formation was most va-R*® ried in nature: rocky heightsand precipitous cliffs, covered with brush and heather, alternating with verdant plains, upon which browsedwell-fed cattle. The banks of the River Moy, which empties its waters into the Bay of Killala, had been the scene of many an episode in earlyIrish history, and traces of a greater past were vis-ible on all sides. The romantic ruins of Rosskerk, Belleck and Moyne abbeys—the theme of manya poets song—lying between Killala and Ballina, 74 THE FRENCH INVASION attested to the artistic and architectural glories ofa generation unfettered by the chains of the con-queror

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