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#OnThisDay 1171 King Henry II landed at Waterford with an army 500 mounted knights, 4,000 men-at-arms & archers. He was the first king of England to set foot on Irish soil. He took the submission of many Irish kings & Norman lords but not the O'Neills of Ulster
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IRA Organisational Map
A village/town comprised a company; a number of companies formed a battalion & a number of battalions formed a brigade. By July 1921, the IRA had roughly 65 brigades & 297 battalions with a strength of 115,550 Volunteers
Not 100% accurate
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I’ve been looking at battlefields for decades now and always amuses that unionist’s 2 key battles, Boyne (1690) and Aughrim (1691) in the south while for nationalists Yellow Ford (1598) and Benburb (1646) are in the north. However….

A formidable fortification built to defeat Tyrone was Charlemont Fort (Co. Armagh) on the R. Blackwater. Built to the modern trace Italienne design. Lord Mountjoy built it in 1602 to secure the route to Dungannon & sidestep Tyrone’s well-nigh impregnable defences further up river

Galloglass hold an almost iconic status in the history of Irish warfare. Originating in Scotland, the heavy mercenary infantry, mail clad and wielding a great sword or their distinctive long-handled axes were a formidable force on Irish battlefield for over 300 years. However...

#OnThisDay 1796 Wolfe Tone, General Hoche & over 14,000 French soldiers attempted to land at Bantry Bay, Cork. 36 of the 43 vessels that set out from France made it there but they couldn't land due to bad storms. It would have to wait till the summer of 1798.
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#OnThisDay 1921 Michael Collins & the Irish delegates sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty ending the War of Independence. Many saw it as a stepping stone to complete independence, others as a stab in the back. Collins stated,
"I have signed my own death warrant".
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#OnThisDay 1865 At the Battle of Sailor's Creek, Irish-American Maj Gen Philip Sheridan captured 1/4 of General Robert E. Lee's Army, including six generals (& son). The restructured Irish Brigade took part in the battle too. Lee surrendered three days later.
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#OnThisDay 1770 British soldiers fired upon a crowd (of "saucy boys") in what became known as The Boston Massacre. Among the five civilians killed, was Patrick Carr from Ireland who died 9 days later. Carr forgave the soldiers & said they fired in self defence.
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Fynes Moryson was of the opinion on Irish soldiers, that “Men of more active bodies, more able to suffer cold, heat, hunger, thirst and whose minds are more void of fear, can hardly be found".
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