Robert Emmets Insurrection (1800 – 1803)
Above: Robert Emmets In 1802, Robert Emmet, a gifted, earnest, noble minded young man of twenty-four, younger brother of Thomas Addis Emmet, attempted to reorganise the United Irishmen. He had just returned from France and had hopes of aid from Napoleon. He employed all his private fortune in the secret manufacture of pikes and other [...]
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