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Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century Portumna castle.Wild Geese heritage museum. The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
22 December – the Flight of the Wild Geese begins, as Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan leads 19,000 Irish soldiers on ships to France, Spain and onwards to join the armies of Europe. Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland (written 1672) is first published, posthumously in Dublin.
The Spanish Monarchy and Irish Mercenaries.- The Wild Geese in Spain 1618-68. (R.A. Stradling) The Irish Brigades in the Service of France, J.C. O'Callaghan. The Wild Geese, M. Hennessy; The March of O'Sullivan Beare, L.J. Emerson. The O' Neills in Spain, Spanish Knights of Irish Origin, Destruction by Peace, Micheline Kerney Walsh. The Irish ...
His father was a leading commander of the Jacobite Irish Army during the Williamite War in Ireland, and led them into exile in the Flight of the Wild Geese following the Siege of Limerick in 1691. James was named after the young Jacobite Prince of Wales, James Francis Edward Stuart. [1] His father was killed in 1693, at the Battle of Landen.
The "Wild Geese" were Irish expatriate soldiers who served in continental European armies from the 16th to 18th CE (see the article Flight of the Wild Geese). (Also Irish regiment ). Pages in category "Wild Geese (soldiers)"
Under the terms of the Treaty of Limerick signed in October 1691, which ended the war between King James II and VII and King William III in Ireland, a separate force of 12,000 Jacobites arrived in France in an event known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. These were kept separate from the Irish Brigade and were formed into King James's own army ...
James II departed into exile in France and was followed by many of his Jacobite supporters over the next few years as the Wild Geese. The "Wild Geese" were initially formed into James II's army in exile. After James's death, they were merged into France's Irish Brigade, which had been set up in 1689 using the 6,000 troops accompanying ...
In Ireland these refugees in France were known as Wild Geese by their detractors. Nantes was the foremost port for the Irish trading fleet. Out of sixty Jacobite company headquarters and trading houses in Europe in the mid-18th century, two thirds were based in four ports: 12 in Nantes , 9 in Bordeaux , 8 in Cadiz and a dozen in Stockholm and ...