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  Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick, who was a younger son, entered Dongan's Regiment of Foot on 6 February 1678.
When the cause of King James was ruined in Ireland, Sarsfield arranged the Treaty of Limerick and sailed to France on 22 December 1691, with many of his countrymen who entered the French service in what is known as the Flight of the Wild Geese.
Sarsfield Barracks is the army barracks of Limerick.
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 Lucan, Dublin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Sarsfield, the Irish Jacobite was born in Lucan and was granted the title Earl of Lucan by King James II.
The influence of the Sarsfield and Vesey families on Lucan is still apparent in the locality.
For example, the local GAA club is Lucan Sarsfields and a pub in the town bears the name 'The Vesey Arms'.
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 Patrick Sarsfield and Sarsfield's Rock, Ballyneety 1690
Sarsfield maintained that the city could be held, and he was supported by the young Duke of Berwick.
Sarsfield was among those who interrogated the deserter, and a daring plan began to form in his mind.
Legend has it that he answered the challenge with a delighted roar: Sarsfield’s the word and Sarsfield’s the man. Too late the escort realised their danger, and over half were killed, the rest fled and one officer was taken prisoner.
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 Patrick Sarsfield
Another Sarsfield, in the reign of Charles I, became a peer with the title of Lord Kilmallock.
His elder brother was married to an illegitimate daughter of Charles II, sister of the Duke of Monmouth, and it was as an ensign in Monmouth's Regiment of Foot that Sarsfield first saw service in the army of Luxembourg; but at Sedgemoor, where he was wounded, Sarsfield was on the king's side.
After James's departure for France, it was largely through Sarsfield that Limerick was defended so well, and it was he who destroyed William's siege train, the most brilliant exploit of the whole war.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sarsfield,patrick.html   (509 words)

  
 Sarsfield.org -- Histoire de Sarsfield
Sarsfield's first citizens were Sèvére D'Aoust, his wife Odile St. Denis and their one-year-old son Gilbert.
Sarsfield served in the army of King Louis XIV of France from 1671-1678.
Although not a native of the city, Sarsfield has always been remembered by the citizens of Limerick as a local hero and adopted as one of their own.
www.sarsfield.org /sars_history_f.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Patrick Sarsfield d. 1693   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sarsfield rose to fame as an Irish soldier in the army of the Catholic King of England James II.
A year later Sarsfield commanded the cavaly at the Battle of the Boyne only to see James finally renounce his claim to the throne in the face of defeat.
Sarsfield was mortally wounded two years later at the Battle of Landen and died saying "oh that this were for Ireland"
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 Wild Geese Heritage Museum and Library - Patrick Sarsfield
Patrick Sarsfield, the first Earl of Lucan was born at Lucan, Co Dublin, about 1650, the second son of Patrick Sarsfield of Lucan and Anne O 'Moore, daughter of Rory O ' Moore.
Sarsfield went to England and received a commission as a Captain in Colonel Dongan's regiment of foot soldiers.
In the wars in Ireland at the time, Patrick Sarsfield was unlucky in not being involved in the most decisive parts of the battles.
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 Sarsfield Grenadier Guards
February 19, 1872, the Sarsfield Grenadier Guard was attached to the 4th Regiment of Infantry, 4th Brigade, and was designated as Company G. Five years later, March 31, 1877, the 4th Infantry was disbanded, and the Sarsfield Guard was attached to the 1st Infantry Battalion, 4th Brigade, National Guard of California.
Patrick Sarsfield, the titular Earl of Lucon, Irish Jacobite and soldier, and member of an Anglo-Norman family long settled in Ireland-entered Dongan's regi ment of foot in 1678 and during the last years of Charles II served in the English regiments which were attached to the army of Louis XIV of France.
Sarsfield later went to France, where he received a commission as lieutenant general (marschal de camp) from King Louis XIV and fought with distinction in Flanders until he was mortally wounded at the battle of Landen, August 19, 1693.
www.militarymuseum.org /SarsfieldGrenadiers.html   (1970 words)

  
 Patrick Scarsfield
While some of Patrick Sarsfield's feats have become household legends, very little is known about his youth.
Sarsfield was survived by his son James, and by his mother and two widowed sisters who were living in France at the time.
Sarsfield was created Baron of Rosberry and Viscount of Tully by James II, and in 1690, he was made Earl of Lucan.
www.doyle.com.au /patrick_sarsfield.htm   (490 words)

  
 Irish Post: The death of Patrick Sarsfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patrick Sarsfield entered the Irish Army in 1678 and served with distinction.
Sarsfield joined the French service and served under Marshal Luxembourg and was assigned with his troops to defend the French-annexed Netherlands, where the French forces of 80,000 men under Luxembourg engaged the Williamite forces of 50,000 near Liege on July 29, 1693.
Patrick Sarsfield, the first Earl of Lucan, was mortally wounded at Emden in Hoy in the lower Netherlands on that day and supposedly uttered the famous last words: “This blood, I shed, it is for Ireland”.
www.irishpost.co.uk /news/story.asp?j=1729   (346 words)

  
 Patrick Sarsfield CSC History
The name Patrick Sarsfield is intrinsically linked with the City of Limerick and it's history as the man who was instrumental in the defence of Limerick during the Siege's of 1690, 1691 and the subsequent Treaty of Limerick.
It was largely through Sarsfield that Limerick was defended so well, and it was he who destroyed William's siege train in 1690, the most brilliant exploit of the whole war.
In addition to Sarsfield Street and Sarsfield Bridge there is a monument in his memory at Cathederal Place near St. Johns Cathederal (view picture).
www.patricksarsfieldcsc.com /history.html   (1227 words)

  
 Patrick Gilmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (25 December 1829 – 24 September 1892) was an Irish-born composer and bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848.
Whilst serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", the tune he took from an old Irish antiwar folk song, "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye".
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1970
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 Limerick.com - the city of Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes & Sarsfield
Sarsfield's father, Patrick, and his mother, Anne, had three children, William, Mary and Patrick (although there is mention of another daughter in the memoirs of Captain Peter Drake).
Sarsfield would have been in London for the excitement of the "horrid Popish plot", designed to topple Charles, reported by Titus Oates in 1678 and which resulted in the deaths of many Catholics.
Sarsfield's Horse - the pride of the Jacobite army - was ordered to the rear of the field, with the best of the French infantry, to guard the road to Dublin.
www.limerick.com /show/archive/archive1/sars.html   (3086 words)

  
 Long before the litigation ended Sarsfield was a tired and worried old man; he began to contradict himself in evidence ...
Long before the litigation ended Sarsfield was a tired and worried old man; he began to contradict himself in evidence and as the costs mounted up he realised that if he did not win the case he would be ruined and just as probably, too, if he did win it.
Their happiness was rudely interrupted in the spring of 1863 by the intrusion of Patrick Sarsfield Colclough, son of the late Sarsfield, armed with four writs of ejectment in respect of both Tintern and the Duffry estates.
Patrick Sarsfield described himself merely as 'Gentleman' but how he made a living and managed to support a wife and three children, all of whom predeceased him, is not at all clear.
members.fortunecity.com /chtii/colclough/cap8a.htm   (2112 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Patrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patrick, Saint PATRICK, SAINT [Patrick, Saint] c.385-461, Christian missionary, the Apostle of Ireland, b.
Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan SARSFIELD, PATRICK, EARL OF LUCAN [Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan], d.
Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago Breaks Guinness World Record on 'Live With Regis and Kelly'.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Patrick   (583 words)

  
 86. A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan by James Clarence Mangan. Colum, Padraic. 1922. Anthology of Irish ...
A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan by James Clarence Mangan.
Sarsfield was leader of the Irish in the wars that closed the seventeenth century.
As he drew from his bosom his hand that was covered with his heart’s blood he said, “Would that this were for Ireland.” By the way, the name Patrick or Padraic came into fashion amongst the Irish, not out of veneration of the saint, but in memory of Patrick Sarsfield.
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 sars.html
Sarsfield served in the army of King Louis XIV of France from 1671-1678 then after James accession to the English throne in 1685 he helped Jame's commander in Ireland,Richard T albot (later earl of Tryconnell) to purge Protestants from the Irish Army.
At the Battle of the Boyne Sarsfield rallied the defeated army led the defense of Limerick and an attack on William's artillery train at Ballyneety.
Sarsfield was responsible for the negotiation of the treaty of surrender at Limerick (October 1691) and then joined the army of Louis XIV in the Spanish Netherlands where he was killed fighting the English at Neerwinden, near Landen, on August, 19, 1693.
www.bcpl.net /~cbladey/sars.html   (322 words)

  
 Who was the Catholic soldier Patrick Sarsfield? in The AnswerBank: History & Myths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patrick was educated at a military college and inherited his brother's estates in 1675.
William invaded Ireland and Sarsfield, by this time also the MP for County Dublin and a commissioner for taxes, was at the head of a strong force guarding Athlone against the enemy.
There is a tradition that Sarsfield, as he lay mortally wounded, lamented that the blood was not shed for his beloved Ireland.
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 My Irish Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patrick established quite a record for himself as a Union Officer in the War of the Confederacy, as he organized a company of cavalry in St. Louis, and became known as the "Irish Dragoons." Although he lived a few years after his service, his death was hastened by wounds he received.
Although Mary and Patrick came together from Ireland, they did not marry until later in St. Louis, MO. I found these families in the Parish records located in Cashel.
My father's father was also named Patrick Sarsfield but when my dad came along, they gave him Sarsfield Andrew.
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 Sarsfield Guard (San Francisco)
The Sarsfield Guard was organized in San Francisco on September 15, 1855, and David Scannell was elected Captain and Richard F. Ryan, First Lieutenant.
Regan of the Sarsfield Guard of the Second Division, Second Brigade, on the occasion of the call made upon the Volunteer companies by the Mayor of San Francisco on the fourteenth inst.
(1) The company derived the name of Sarsfield from the famed soldier, Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Luncan, Ireland, who was a commanding officer in the English Army during the reign of Charles II and James II of England.
www.militarymuseum.org /SarsfieldGuard.html   (583 words)

  
 Exhibit Highlights - Boston College
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, 1829-1892: Father of the American Concert Band
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, considered the "father of the American concert band," was born in Ballygar, Ireland in 1829.
The Patrick S. Gilmore Society home page (maintained by the Boston Irish Tourism Association) gives an overview of Gilmore's musical career.
www.bc.edu /libraries/centers/burns/exhibits/highlights/s-psgilmore   (572 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | March 1, 2003 - The Columbus Foundation: Brazil RPCV John Patrick Sarsfield builds replica of ...
In 1988, the Columbus Foundation hired John Patrick Sarsfield, an American engineer, maritime historian, and expert on Portuguese caravels, to design and construct a replica of the Niña.
Sarsfield discovered this technique in daily use in shipyards on the coast of Bahia in Brazil.
Designed by the esteemed late marine architect John Patrick Sarsfield, the vessel'd only divergence from the original concept is the addition of a small diesel engine.
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 American Bandmasters Association Research Center, Patrick Gilmore Collection, UM Libraries
Biography: Patrick S. Gilmore, the most important American bandleader before John Philip Sousa, was born on December 25, 1829 in Ireland.
Patrick Gilmore died following a concert at the St. Louis Exposition on September 24, 1892.
Certificate of commission, appointed Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore Aid-de-Camp of the Grand Army of the Republic; given by the commander in Chief at Albany, New York, September 18, 1891.
www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/SCPA/ABA/Gilmore/Gilmore.html   (2002 words)

  
 Sarsfield Family Genealogy Forum
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 GoIreland.com - Genealogy surname search
Patrick Sarsfield (1650-1693), the highlights of whose distinguished military career were the destruction of the Williamite siege train at Ballyneety, the defence of Limerick and his death from wounds at Landen; the year before, he had been made a general in the French Army.
Patrick Sarsfield, who was Earl of Lucan, belonged to the former.
Field-Marshal Jacques Hyacinthe Viscount de Sarsfield (1717-1787), and Col. Guy Claude Comte de Sarsfield (1718-1789), were of the Munster branch which, it should be added, had a seat at Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.
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 Our Irish Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A McCann family history was begun in 1925 by Patrick Sarsfield McCann.
       Patrick S. was the son Patrick McCann, a younger brother of James and thus a cousin of Owen.
Her children were: John and James (twins), William, Patrick, Mary and Ann (twins), Margaret, Ella, Joseph and Nora.
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 A Blessing on Patrick Sarsfield.
O PATRICK SARSFIELD, health be to you, since you went to France and your camps were loosened; making your sighs along with the king, and you left poor Ireland and the Gael defeated–Och ochone!
O Patrick Sarsfield, it is a man with God you are; and blessed is the earth you ever walked on.
O Patrick Sarsfield, the prayer of every person with you; my own prayer and the prayer of the Son of Mary with you, since you took the narrow ford going through Biorra, and since at Cuilenn O'Cuanac you won Limerick–Och ochone!
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/gregory/poetry/poetry-10.html   (321 words)

  
 SARSFIELD, PATRICK (? ... - Online Information article about SARSFIELD, PATRICK (? ...
Patrick, who was a younger son, entered Dongan's See also:
Catholic force, and Sarsfield, whose family adhered to the See also:
As the king was deserted by his army there was no serious fighting, but Sarsfield had a See also:
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