ID de tableau:: 49366 General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old new17/Thomas Pakenham-958526.jpg mk197
Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796
ID de tableau:: 49367 Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old new17/Thomas Pakenham-422355.jpg mk197
United Irish Leade who persuaded the French to try to Liverate Ireland
ID de tableau:: 49368 Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France new17/Thomas Pakenham-824862.jpg mk197
one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.
ID de tableau:: 49369 William Pitt new17/Thomas Pakenham-823677.jpg mk197
Britain-s war-weary Prime Minister
Ireland,he knew,was the weakest link in Britain-s line of defence against France
ID de tableau:: 49370 George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760 new17/Thomas Pakenham-234438.jpg mk197
Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics.