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    The French expedition to Ireland, known in French as the Expédition d'Irlande ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic...
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    shore. The French 74-gun ship Droits de l'Homme had been part of the Expédition d'Irlande, an unsuccessful attempt by a French expeditionary force to invade...
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  • Thumbnail for French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794)
    part of the fleet that sailed in December 1796 on the disastrous Expédition d'Irlande. After unsuccessful attempts to land troops on Ireland, the Droits...
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    The Expédition d'Irlande was a French attempt to invade Ireland in December 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Encouraged by representatives of...
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  • the action of 31 July 1793. Promoted to admiral, he commanded the Expédition d'Irlande and was later defeated at the Battle of Tory Island. He retired in...
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    of Groix, and the Expédition d'Irlande. At the Peace of Amiens, Redoutable was sent to the Caribbean for the Saint-Domingue expedition, ferrying troops...
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    Groix. He was relieved when he refused to serve for the disastrous Expédition d'Irlande. Villaret was then elected at the Council of Five Hundred. He joined...
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    prepare for an expedition to Ireland, he took command of the Légion Noire under Hoche, sailing in the ill-fated Expédition d'Irlande to Bantry Bay in...
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    quickly exchanged and returned in August. In 1796 he took part in the Expédition d'Irlande as a chief of division, leading a 3-ship of the line and 4-frigate...
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    France supported the Irish rebellion and, in December 1796, sent its Expédition d'Irlande of 12,000 soldiers to Bantry Bay, County Cork; however, the soldiers...
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    an expedition to land an 18 000-man army in Ireland, in a move similar to what had been attempted in 1796 with the ill-fated Expédition d'Irlande; eventually...
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    Revolution. Wolfe Tone asked for French intervention (the unsuccessful Expédition d'Irlande, 1796) in the lead-up to the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Some members...
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  • Parliamentarians during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1649–53). The Expédition d'Irlande by the French First Republic (December 1796). The French invasion...
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    middle classes (for example shopkeepers and publicans). The failed Expédition d'Irlande of 1796 and invasion at Fishguard caused the expansion of the corps...
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  • launched in 1795 for the French Navy. The two vessels took part in the Expédition d'Irlande in 1796–1797. The Royal Navy captured both vessels in 1803 in separate...
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  • Law—collectively referred to as the Constitution of 1782. 1796 December Expédition d'Irlande: Attempted French invasion. 1798 24 May Battle of Ballymore-Eustace:...
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  • 8-gun Agile-class schooner of the French Navy. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande and in the Battle of Tory Island. She was decommissioned in 1803...
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  • the French Revolutionary Wars. Damaged beyond repairs during the Expédition d'Irlande, she was scuttled on 30 December 1796. On 11 December 1781, Bussy-Castelnau...
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    Polyphemus within the year. Polyphemus was then heavily engaged in the Expédition d'Irlande during the winter of 1796–1797, when a French invasion fleet was...
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    the Expédition d'Irlande. Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, 60 survived. The wreck was found in 1986. max. 1,150 1711  Great Britain Quebec Expedition –...
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    transferred to the 74-gun Fougueux, on which he took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and which he commanded until 17 August 1797. On 9 March 1798, Maistral...
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    of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley. Ships of the line v t e v t e...
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  • Thumbnail for French ship Trajan (1792)
    dismasted the British HMS Bellerophon. In 1797, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland. On 17 December 1797, she...
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    this point. Another attempt at a winter cruise was made with the Expédition d'Irlande, in December 1796, and met with a similar disaster. Troude, op. cit...
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    until 30 December 1796 when the British captured her during the Expédition d'Irlande. In February 1793, amid rising political tension, the French Republic...
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    Fleet launched a large scale attempt to invade Ireland, known as the Expédition d'Irlande. This too ended in disaster, with twelve ships lost and thousands...
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  • in 1796. In 1798, he was appointed to Vénus and took part in the Expédition d'Irlande. In 1799, he served on the frigate Concorde under Jean-François Landolphe...
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  • Thumbnail for French frigate Immortalité (1795)
    a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and was captured shortly after the Battle of Tory Island by HMS Fisgard...
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  • Thumbnail for French frigate Impatiente (1795)
    a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, where she was wrecked on 29 December 1796. Only 7 survived, and...
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  • Affronteur was launched in 1795 and in 1796-7 participated in the Expédition d'Irlande. In 1803, HMS Doris captured her and she subsequently served the...
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