Irish History Guide - Early History to Present Day Ireland

24
May

King Charles I On Painting

Above : Painting Of King Charles I , King At The Time

It has been already mentioned that one of the ways in which the Lord Deputy had hoped to render Ireland useful to the English Crown was by supplying Charles with a body of efficient troops, who would be wholly under his control, and could be used, if necessary, to crush the pretensions of the English Parliamentary party. At the time of his arrival in Ireland the army was in a most unsatisfactory state.

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