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	The Irish Brigade
		Thus the Irish Brigade originally consisted of the 69th and 88th New York regiments, the officers of both being mostly veterans of the 69th Militia, the 63rd New York, in the process of being raised when the brigade was being planed, and the 2nd New York Light Artillery Battalion.
		The Irish Brigade fought in every campaign of the Army of the Potomac, from the Peninsular Campaign in the early half of 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox on April 9th, 1865.
		A month later the 29th Massachusetts, which had fought with the brigade from the Peninsular Campaign through the battle of Antietam, was amicably traded to the IX Corps for the veteran 28th Massachusetts, a solidly Irish regiment from the Boston area that had been raised for the Irish Brigade.
	www.hauntedfieldmusic.com /IrishBrg.html (5692 words)

	Regiment Dillon
		It is late in the day when The Irish Brigade, 3,800 men, officers chanting ‘Cuimhnigidh ar Limerick argus feall na sassonach’, falls upon the defiantly undefeated Anglo-Hanoverian columns of the Duke of Cumberland that are close to fatally piercing the French* lines of Marshal De Saxe on the field of Fontenoy.
		The Irish Brigade, on this day the 11th of May, is the last French reserve and their intervening tips the struggle in favour of the French.
		The victory is a cruel one however for the Irish Brigade, 656 men are lost including the colonels of the Regiments Dillon and Lally.
	www.thewarriorirish.com /pages/regiment.html (317 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
		Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
		Later the Irish brigade of New York was organized under the command of General Thomas F. Meagher, with the 69th as its nucleus, the 63rd and 88th regiments of New York being added, numbering in all over 2500 men.
		While men of the Irish race were engaged on the battlefield in defence of their adopted country, accompanied and encouraged by the clergy, the religious orders of women within the Church were no less diligent in nursing the sick and wounded in camps and hospitals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm (16021 words)

	A Popular History of Ireland: from the Earliest : AND LIMERICK.
		The armies now destined to combat for two kings on Irish soil were strongly marked by those distinctions of race and religion which add bitterness to struggles for power, while they present striking contrasts to the eye of the painter of military life and manners.
		Irish tradition and Irish prophecy still teemed with tales of terror and predictions of evil at the hands of the Danes, while these hardy mercenaries observed, with grim satisfaction, that the memory of their fierce ancestors had not become extinct after the lapse of twenty generations.
		On the 22nd, James was at Dundalk and William at Newry; as the latter advanced, the Jacobites retired, and finally chose their ground at the Boyne, resolved to hazard a battle, for the preservation of Dublin, and the safety of the province of Leinster.
	www.irishpast.com /phrlc10/phrlc10_and_limerick.html (2059 words)

	Songs of the Irish -- "Kelly's Irish Brigade" -- The Wild Geese Today
		A brigade, it should be remembered, generally contained three regiments operating as a unit (infantry regiments consisted of 10 companies of roughly 100 soldiers each).
		In the minds of these Irish soldiers of the early part of the war, there was only one unit known as the Irish Brigade—that of the French Army(WGT Shops), which had existed from 1691 to 1791, had a sterling reputation, and with which these new units wanted to closely associate themselves.
		The Irish Brigade of France attacks in this fanciful version of the action at Fontenoy, probably dating to the 19th century.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/dkiram2.html (1588 words)

	From the Picket Line
		Kimball’s brigade occupied a roughly two-thirds to one-thirds division in the brigade line of battle, with the Roulette lane leading to the Sunken Road separating the larger portion of the brigade from the smaller.
		The portion of Kimball’s brigade on the western (Antietam Creek) side of the Roulette lane was in imminent danger of being flanked on its left by a strong but local counter-attack from elements comprised of at least portions of the Fourth North Carolina if not from the Fourteenth or Thirtieth North Carolina regiments.
		Most of the regiments in the Irish Brigade in farmer Roulette’s pasture and the North Carolinians in the road were armed with smoothbore.69 caliber muskets.
	www.us-civilwar.com /njrebel/picket29.html (1188 words)

	The Irish Brigade
		Advancing up the street, at the front of which the right of the brigade in line had rested, and worried by shell and shot and rifle balls every step we took, we crossed, the mill-race immediately outside of the city, which water course may be described as the first defense of the enemy.
		Thus formed, under the unabating tempest of shot and shell, the Irish Brigade advanced at the double-quick against the rifle-pits, the breastworks, and batteries of the enemy.
		It is a substantial and splendid accession to the Irish Brigade.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/topics/ethnic/irish/Ir-fbrg.htm (6108 words)

	The Battle of the Carrignagat 1798
		The campaign of the Irish and French forces was well documented and even formed the basis of a novel, made into a film "The Year of the French".by Thomas Flanagan.
		The French Army, (the 70th Demi-Brigade, descendants of Irish Wild Geese Regiments amalgamated into the French Army) had landed at Killala Bay near Ballina in Co.Mayo under the command of General Humbert.
		Irish, French and British all partook in the same liberal quantities of beverage and revelled in a true sense of comraderie justifying the spirit of battle re-enactment.
	www.irishhistoryco.com /Carrignagat.htm (615 words)

	The Irish Brigade
		The Irish are a military people—strong, nimble, and hardy, fond of adventure, irascible, brotherly, and generous—they have all the qualities that tempt men to war and make them good soldiers.
		They fought with the advantages of French discipline and equipment; they fought as soldiers, with the rights of war, not ‘rebels, with halters round their necks’; they fought by the side of great rivals and amid the gaze of Europe.
		In the most of their domestic wars they appeared as divided clans or abrupt insurgents; they were exposed to the treachery of a more instructed, of an unscrupulous and a compact enemy; they had neither discipline, nor generalship, nor arms; their victories were those of a mob; their defeats were followed by extermination.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/online/E800002-029.html (1784 words)

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