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The outbreak of the rebellion on the night of 23/24 May 1798 led to failed assaults on Ballymore-Eustace, Naas, and Prosperous.As news of the rising spread throughout Kildare, Kilcullen rebels began to mobilise in the ancient hill-top churchyard in the town-land now known as Old Kilcullen.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Turn out, [6] The Hurries, [7] 1798 Rebellion [8]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The main organising force was the Society of United Irishmen.
18 October 1798: Great Britain; Name: Loire: Acquired: 18 October 1798 by capture: Honours and awards: Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "27 June 1803 Boat Service" "4 June 1805 Boat Service" Fate: Broken up in 1818: General characteristics; Displacement: 1,350 tons (French) Length: 46.3 m (151 ft 11 in) Beam: 12 m (39 ft 4 in) Draught ...
The last action of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Battle of Tory Island ended the final attempt by the French Navy to land substantial numbers of soldiers in Ireland during the war. The Society of United Irishmen , led by Wolfe Tone , launched an uprising against British rule in Ireland in May 1798.
The Battle of Castlebar was a military engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 which occurred on 27 August 1798 near the town of Castlebar, County Mayo.A combined force of 2,000 French Revolutionary Army troops and United Irishmen rebels routed a British Crown force of 6,000 men mainly consisting of Irish militiamen led by Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake in what would later become known as ...
The U.S. Navy purchased Croyable on 30 July 1798, manned her at Philadelphia, renamed her Retaliation, and placed her under the command of Lt. William Bainbridge. Retaliation departed Norfolk on 28 October 1798 with Montezuma and Norfolk and cruised in the West Indies protecting American commerce during the Quasi-War with France.
The Royal Navy commissioned her at Jamaica as HMS Renommee, under the command of Captain Robert Rolles. [2] On 6 September 1797 she was in company with HMS Diligence and HMS Hermione when Diligence captured a Spanish 6-gun packet ship with troops on board. [5] On 20 September 1798, Renommee captured the 6-gun privateer Triomphante. [6]
[b] In 1847, the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Trafalgar" to all surviving claimants from the battle. After Trafalgar, Ajax was at the blockade of Cadiz. On 25 November, Thunderer detained the Ragusan ship Nemesis , which was sailing from Isle de France to Leghorn, Italy , with a cargo of spice, indigo dye , and ...