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by macliam » Fri Jul 29 2022 9:04pm
29 July 1848 - The "Young Ireland" rebellion culminates in the "Battle of the Widow MacCormack's cabbage garden" near Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary. The leaders were arrested, convicted of high treason and sentenced to death, but their sentences were commuted to transportation - despite the oratory of one who said he had rebelled "not because I loved England less, but because I loved Ireland more"
Another, Thomas Francis Meagher, had travelled to revolutionary France prior to the rebellion and returned with a new flag, based on the French one - so this was the first time the Green, White and Orange tricolour was ever used. Meagher escaped to America and later joined the U.S. Army, leading the "Irish Brigade" with the rank of Brigadier General on the Union side. After the Civil War, he became the acting territorial governor of Montana.
Not bad for a condemned rebel......
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