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    Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (27 July 1744 – 20 February 1808) was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798...
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    force of 6,000 men mainly consisting of Irish militiamen led by Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake in what would later become known as the "Castlebar Races" or...
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    force of approximately 13,000 government troops under the command of Gerard Lake and 16,000 United Irishmen rebels led by Anthony Perry. The battle, a...
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    Marquess Conyngham) as well as his only son George William Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone (1852–1879) are buried in a simple grave in the overgrown part...
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    Midhurst, Sussex, in 1552, the eldest son and heir of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu (1528–1592), by his first marriage to Lady Jane Radcliffe, a daughter...
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  • Gerard Vernon Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth (16 May 1898 – 28 September 1984), styled Viscount Lymington from 1925 until 1943, was a British landowner...
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    – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in...
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    dismayed when several of his Irish officers were ordered to be executed by Gerard Lake on the basis that they had previously been British subjects. Humbert...
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    after General Lake launched several attacks. As rain poured on the county for the first time since the rebellion began, General Lake's men entered the...
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    Drennan's proposal for a "benevolent conspiracy--a plot for the people", on 1 April 1791 McCracken resolved with Samuel Neilson, John Robb, Alexander Lowry...
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    Retrieved 21 November 2020. Bennell, Anthony S. (2004). "Lake, Gerard, first Viscount Lake of Delhi (1744–1808)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary peer. He is known for...
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    ISBN 1-84067-363-X. OCLC 50264868. Grocott, Terence (2002) [1997]. Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Era. Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-164-5...
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    Tom; Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798, Lilliput Press, 2004; ISBN 978-1-84351-039-0 Gahan, D. "The Scullabogue Massacre, 1798", History Ireland, v4...
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    Londonderry, Charles William Vane, ed. (1853). Memories and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh. London: John Murray. p. 260. "Women's Museum of Ireland |...
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  • (UGLE). James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn KG PC (1811–1885), styled Viscount Hamilton from 1814 to 1818 and the Marquess of Abercorn from 1818 to 1868...
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    Hastings to the Barringtons, Gerards, and then to Lord Lake of Aston Clinton later to become Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake. On 22 September 1934, a twin-engined...
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     18. Brian Cleary, The Battle of Oulart Hill, Context and Strategy (1995) [1] Looby, David (3 February 2018). "Ancient sword shines in Ottawa museum"....
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    Warde Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh John Borlase Warren Military action...
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  • rebel forces had already accepted a government amnesty from Generals Gerard Lake and Ralph Dundas, following their defeat at the battle of Kilcullen and...
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    Edgar Lacy Brigadier Mark Lacey General Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (1744–1808) Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake Major-General Simon Lalor Major-General...
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    In 1067, Carcassonne became the property of Raimond-Bernard Trencavel, viscount of Albi and Nîmes, through his marriage with Ermengard, sister of the last...
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    Michael Dwyer (1 January 1772– 23 August 1825) was an insurgent captain in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, leading the United Irish forces in battles in...
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    ISSN 0412-8079. JSTOR 27699471. Bennell, Anthony S. (2004). "Lake, Gerard, first Viscount Lake of Delhi (1744–1808)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    (1594–1665), was an Irish soldier and politician. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Muskerry in 1641. He rebelled against the government and joined the Irish...
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    London by order of Henry VIII of England for High Treason George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (1536) – executed at Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII of England...
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  • Norton McGiffin, American Captain in the Chinese Navy (1885-1895). New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. P. 35, 36, 96 https://terryaspinall.com/03merc/biography/pedros-bio...
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    Hester Long's sister worked at Powerscourt for Lord Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt with the Dublin Castle authorities with a view to a negotiated...
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    contractors. Also in 2016, Swan Hunter was relaunched into the subsea industry by Gerard Kroese, the eldest son of former owner Jaap Kroese. Swan Hunter started...
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 10 December 2015. Fitzpatrick, William John (1 January 1866). 'The sham squire' and the informers of 1798; with a view of...
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