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[112] [113] [114] Lalor's choice of password for the night of 2 December—"Vinegar Hill" [115] [116] [117] —caused support for the rebellion to fall away among those who were otherwise disposed to resist the military, as word spread that the question of Irish home rule had become involved. One survivor of the battle stated that "the collapse ...