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  Roger Casement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Casement was born in Dublin to a Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement, 3rd Dragoon Guards who became a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant and a Roman Catholic mother.
Casement may never have learned that it was not the Volunteers who were planning the rising, but IRB members such as Patrick Pearse and Tom Clarke who were pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Roger Casement's speech from the Dock at the end of his trial for treason.
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 Roger Casement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Roger David Casement (September 1, 1864 - August 3, 1916) was a British diplomat by profession and a poet, Irish revolutionary and nationalist by inclination.
Casement joined the British consular service in 1892 where he gained an international reputation and was knighted in 1911 for his report highlighting the appalling horrors of European rule in the Congo Free State, and for similar work amongst the Putumayo Indians in Peru.
In the mid 1960s Casement's body was repatriated and after a state funeral, was buried with full military honours in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
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 Roger Casement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Casement joined the British consular service in where he gained an international reputation and knighted in 1911 for his report highlighting appalling horrors of European rule in the Congo Free State and for similar work amongst the Indians in Peru.
Casement was able to a "treaty" with Germany which stated their for an independent Ireland however he spent of his time in Germany in a attempt to recruit an "Irish Brigade" consisting Irish prisoners-of-war in the prison camp of Limburg an der Lahn who would be trained to fight England.
Casement didn't learn about the Easter Rising until after the plan were fully The IRB puposefully kept him in the and even tried to replace him.
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 Roger Casement - MSN Encarta
Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916), Irish revolutionist, born Roger David Casement in Sandycove, near Dublin.
World opinion was aroused by Casement's report, with its detailed, eyewitness accounts of atrocities, and the Belgian king was eventually forced to relinquish his personal sovereignty over the Congo.
The Irish consider Casement a martyr patriot; his remains were obtained from England in 1965 and reburied in Ireland.
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 Roger Casement
Roger Casement was born to a Protestant father and Catholic mother in Sandy Cove near Dublin in 1864.
Roger Casement had long been seen as a champion of the oppressed, demonstrated through his compassionate foreign service in the Congo and Peru.
Sir Roger Casement was the last person to suffer the consequences of the 1916 rebellion.
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Last Defence
Roger Casement was to spend the next twenty years of his life in Africa, stationed in the Congo, the Niger Coast, Lourenco Marques, South Africa and St. Paul de Loanda (Angola).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Roger David Casement: the Crime of the Congo.
Roger Casement, appointed British consul in the capital of Boma, began to be concerned about the ill-treatment, mutilations, executions and forced labour of disenfranchised natives employed in the rubber industry.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Roger Casement
Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916), the British traitor and Irish nationalist hero, was hanged by the British in mid-1916 for his part in working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916.
Casement himself was rewarded with a knighthood in 1911, the same year he retired from the diplomatic service in ill-health and established himself in Dublin.
While in Germany Casement strove in particular to effectively borrow a number of German officers to assist with a planned Easter rising in Dublin; again, he was disappointed.
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 Roger Casement info here at en.88of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Roger Casement shared a tent with Joseph Conrad Roger Casement shared a tent with Joseph Conrad in the Congo and became the inspiration behind his most famous novel, Heart of Darkness.
Casement went to Africa for the lap in 1883, at the seniority of only nineteen, in exaction in Congo Free State for extensive houses und for King Léopold II of Belgium's Association Internationale Africaine.
Casement may nevermore have omniscient that it wasn't the Volunteers who were planning the rising, but IRB units such as Patrick Pearse und Tom Clarke who were weeding the twines back of the scenes.
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 Roger Casement info here at en.85of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Casement went to Africa for the prime in 1883, at the life of only nineteen, in conscription in Congo Free State for scarce for King Léopold II of Belgium's Association Internationale Africaine.
Casement may not unceasingly have grave that it the Volunteers who were planning the rising, but IRB affiliates such as Patrick Pearse Tom Clarke who were culling the twists abaft the scenes.
In 1965, Casement's anatomy was repatriated and, after a state funeral, was buried with warmongering honours in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
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 Roger Casement info here at en.93of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Casement may obliterate it have lettered that it wasn't the Volunteers who were planning the rising, but IRB branchs such as Patrick Pearse & Tom Clarke who were plucking the cords abaft the scenes.
In 1965, Casement's anatomy was repatriated and, after a state funeral, was buried with absolute warmongering honours in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
Roger Casement's speech from the Dock at the confine of her probationary for treason.
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 Casement, Sir Roger David - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
CASEMENT, SIR ROGER DAVID [Casement, Sir Roger David] 1864-1916, Irish revolutionary.
While in British consular service, he exposed (1904) the atrocious exploitation of wild-rubber gatherers in the Congo (thus helping to bring about the extinction of the Congo Free State in 1908) and later exposed similar conditions in South America.
Although an Ulster Protestant, Casement became an ardent Irish nationalist.
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 Casement, Sir Roger David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the outbreak of World War I he went first to the United States and then to Germany to secure aid for an Irish uprising.
The Germans promised help, but Casement considered it insufficient and returned to Ireland in Apr., 1916, hoping to secure a postponement of the Easter Rebellion (see Ireland).
Arrested immediately after his landing from a German submarine, he was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason.
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 Casement Sir Roger David - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Casement Sir Roger David - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Casement, Sir Roger David (1864-1916), Irish patriot, born in Sandycove, near Dublin.
This report of the execution of Roger Casement appeared in The Times on August 4, 1916.
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 Casement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Casement served as British consul in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) from 1895 to 1898, in Angola from 1898 to 1900, in the Congo Free State from 1901 to 1904, and in Brazil from 1906 to 1911.
Casement sympathized with the predominately Catholic Irish nationalists, despite his own Protestant upbringing.
An unfavorable biography: Roger Casement: a New Judgement by Rene Marie MacColl, 1956.
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 Military Images Photos Pictures Forums - 3 august London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Roger David Casement, an Irish-born diplomat who in 1911 was knighted by King George V, is executed for his role in Ireland's Easter Rising.
Casement was an Irish Protestant who served as a British diplomat during the early part of the 20th century.
Casement was tried separately because of his illustrious past but nevertheless was found guilty of treason on June 29.
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 casement - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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Casement, Sir Roger David (1864-1916), Irish revolutionist, born Roger David Casement in Sandycove, near Dublin.
In 1916 Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement was tried for high treason by a British court for his role in planning the Easter Rebellion, an...
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 The Easter Rebellion
They were the British consular agent Sir Roger David Casement; another was the educator Patrick Pearse, who in 1913 was one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers; and the poet Thomas MacDonagh (Luby).
Sir Roger David Casement also helped form the Irish National Volunteers.
However, when MacNeil found out the Casement had been captured, he canceled the maneuvers and got word to the countryside that the rebellion was off (MacEoin 150).
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 Casement
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Casement Sir Roger David - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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 Forum > Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916)
Aug 8 2005, 05:09 PM Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916), the British traitor and Irish nationalist hero, was hanged by the British in mid-1916 for his part in working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916.
Many nationalists cannot accept that Casement was gay.
Aug 18 2005, 04:49 PM "With an appeal dismissed Casement was taken to Pentonville Prison in London where he was hanged on 3 August 1916."
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 Janus: Extracts from the diaries of Sir Roger Casement
In 1913 Casement became treasurer of the Irish Volunteers, an Irish nationalist organisation.
Photocopy extracts from Casement's diaries 1903-4 and 1910 and cash ledger, 1911, prepared for case Rex v Casement, 1916.
The collection has been catalogued and copies of the catalogue are available at Churchill Archives Centre, at The Historical Manuscripts Commission and on the Janus website: http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir Roger David Casement (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 casement - OneLook Dictionary Search
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The Germans sent them to Ireland in a submarine, but as they tried to land, Casement was arrested by the British on charges of treason, for which he was later tried and executed.
He was noted for his dramatic style in the courtroom, and he handled a number of important cases, such as the Seddon poisoning in 1912.
1735: Sir Robert Walpole was the first prime minister to live at 10 Downing Street, five minutes’ walk from the Houses of Parliament.
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 Europe/Former Soviet Union Region
Germany agreed to provide military assistance (weapons and ammunition) to Irish nationalists in March 1916, but the military assistance was intercepted by the British before it could get to the Irish nationalists.
Sir Roger David Casement, an Irish nationalist leader, was smuggled into Ireland from a German submarine on April 20, 1916.
Fifteen Irish nationalists, including Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Sir Roger Casement were executed for their involvement in the rebellion on August 3, 1916.
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