The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the...
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The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film, which was directed...
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to France, the diaspora known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. The other set out conditions for those who remained, including guarantees of religious freedom...
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Irish Brigade (France) (redirect from Irish Brigade of France)
force of 12,000 Jacobites of the Irish Army had arrived in France in an event known as Flight of the Wild Geese. These were kept separate from the Irish...
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Canada goose (redirect from Canadian geese)
flight formation, with an altitude of 1 km (3,000 feet) for migration flight. The maximum flight ceiling of Canada geese is unknown, but they have been reported...
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Clare's Dragoons (section The Wild Geese)
dragoon regiment during the Jacobite war. When Clare's Dragoons left Limerick with the Flight of the Wild Geese they became a regiment of infantry. Clare's...
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Abroad: From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic Wars. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-845887-995. McGarry, Stephen (11 May 2020). "The Battle of Fontenoy in...
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Collins in the first of their three mercenary war films. Despite the films title, Code Name: Wild Geese is not the sequel to The Wild Geese film, but a...
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City Hall, Limerick (category City and town halls in the Republic of Ireland)
The scuplture was intended to commemorate local families that were forced to flee the city to France in the "Flight of the Wild Geese" following the Siege...
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played overseas). The Classic was intended to be a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Flight of the Wild Geese of 1691 and the Irish heroes who...
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Honora Burke (redirect from Honora Sarsfield, Countess of Lucan)
France to continue serving the exiled James II, an event known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. Honora had probably left for France a year earlier with other...
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Portumna Castle (category Flight of the Wild Geese)
gardens, gate lodges, gateposts and a yard. Flight of the Wild Geese House of Burgh "National Monuments of County Galway in State Care" (PDF). heritageireland...
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refugees in France were known as Wild Geese by their detractors. Nantes was the foremost port for the Irish trading fleet. Out of sixty Jacobite company headquarters...
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commander of the Jacobite Irish Army during the Williamite War in Ireland, and led them into exile in the Flight of the Wild Geese following the Siege of Limerick...
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enter the French service, a journey that has become known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. The terms of the Treaty of Limerick were not honoured by the 1697...
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types of geese, the domestic goose, and the wild goose: of the two, the wild goose is the more important for poetry, whether as significant of migratory...
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(Wild geese rush through the night) is a war poem by Walter Flex. It was published in 1917 in his poem book Im Felde zwischen Nacht und Tag (In the (battle)...
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list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The Gunpowder...
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the country following ending up on the losing side in conflicts (i.e. the Flight of the Earls and the Flight of the Wild Geese) or in the case of the...
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Greylag goose (redirect from Greylag geese)
with the offspring sharing characteristics of both wild and domestic birds. The greylag is the largest and bulkiest of the grey geese of the genus Anser...
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dawn. The memorial consists of six wild geese in flight, symbolic of the flight to freedom and, to all Irish people, emigration. The wild geese are also...
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Huy (redirect from History of Huy)
Ireland, General in French Army following "Flight of the Wild Geese" is buried here, in the graveyard of St. Martin's Church. Léon Lhoist, businessman Simon...
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Irish people (redirect from People of the Republic of Ireland)
in the wars on the Continent, in a constant emigration romantically styled the"Flight of the Wild Geese" and, before that, in the 'Flight of the Earls'...
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Joan Armatrading (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
"The Flight of the Wild Geese", which was used during the opening- and end-titles of the 1978 war film The Wild Geese. The song was included on the soundtrack...
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Domestic goose (redirect from Domestic geese)
feathers, or as companion animals. Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose (Anser anser domesticus) and...
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Owen O'Rourke (category Wild Geese (soldiers))
the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. Following the defeat of the Jacobites, O'Rourke followed James II into exile in France in the Flight of the Wild Geese...
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Joan Armatrading discography (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
This article is the discography of British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London:...
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Jacobitism (redirect from War of the British Succession)
soldiers went into exile in the diaspora known as the Flight of the Wild Geese, the majority of whom were later absorbed into the French Royal Army's Irish...
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Matthias Barnewall, 10th Baron Trimlestown (category Flight of the Wild Geese)
was a hostage of the Treaty of Limerick. He was outlawed by the treaty, had his estates seized and joined the Flight of the Wild Geese to France. He was...
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