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	General Humbert - Politics.ie Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1802 General Humbert commanded a division of the army that was sent by Napoleon to Santo Domingo under General Leclerc, and was appointed governor of Port au Prince.
		General Humbert thought that, even with the United Irishmen, his army would not stand a change against the 100,000 British forces in Ireland.
		Seemingly the advance was unstoppable and on 7 September General Humbert crossed the River Shannon, which was considered as a natural barrier between the outback in the west and civilised Ireland in the east.
	www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=General_Humbert (1014 words)

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		Young Général Jean-Joseph-Amable Humbert (the landing occurred on his 31st birthday), a canny veteran of irregular warfare against the insurgents of the Vendée, was well aware of the odds against him in a conventional military showdown, but also of the multiplying effects of surprise and speed.
		Humbert's army was brought to bay at Ballinamuck on the 8th of September, 1798.
		Général Humbert served along the Rhine and in Switzerland in 1799, in the Army of the West in 1800, and in Santo Domingo in 1801-02.
	www.wargame.ch /wc/nwc/newsletter/September2001/Newsletter15/Ireland.html (2359 words)

	Jean Joseph Amable Humbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert (August 22, 1755—January 3, 1823) was a French soldier, a participant in the Revolution, who led a failed invasion of Ireland to assist Irish rebels in 1798.
		Born in Saint-Nabord, Vosges, he was a sergeant in the National Guard of Lyon, and rapidly advanced through the ranks to become Brigadier General on April 9, 1794, and fought in the Western campaigns before being allocated to the Army of the Rhine.
		In Ireland, although managing to land at Killala, meeting with initial success in the battle of Castlebar, and subsequently declaring a Republic of Connaught, his small force of was defeated at the battle of Ballinamuck and he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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