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    Théobald Dillon (1745 – 29 April 1792) was a French Royal Army officer. He was a distant cousin of general Arthur Dillon (who also had a brother named...
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    Viscount Dillon, of Costello-Gallen in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1622 for Theobald Dillon, Lord President...
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    Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallin (died 1691) supported King James II, was attainted on 11 May 1691, and fell in the Battle of Aughrim...
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    Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon (died 1624), was an Irish military commander and adventurer. He held extensive lands in eastern Connacht and north-western...
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    Dillon's Regiment (French: Régiment de Dillon) was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon, for the Jacobite side in the Williamite...
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    American football player Theobald Dillon (??–1624), Irish military commander Théobald Dillon (1745–1792), Irish general Thomas Dillon (disambiguation), multiple...
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    Theobald Dillon and his wife Sarah Bourke. His father was the third son of Christopher Dillon, who was the eldest son and heir apparent of Theobald Dillon...
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    three sons of Theobald Dillon and his wife Mary Talbot. At that time his father was heir apparent of Lucas Dillon, 6th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen...
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    needed] Dillon assumed military duties at a very difficult time for noble officers of the old army. On 29 April 1792 his cousin Théobald Dillon was lynched...
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  • born in 1579, the second son of Theobald Dillon and Eleanor Tuite. His father would become the first Viscount Dillon in 1622. His mother was a daughter...
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  • Carlingford. Theobald was the eldest of Sir John Taaffe's, 1st Viscount Taaffe of Corren, fifteen children. His mother was Anne Dillon, daughter of Theobald Dillon...
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    and they fled back to Valenciennes in a disorderly fashion. His ally Théobald Dillon, who served with Biron under marshal Rochambeau during this invasion...
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    in one case, on 28 April 1792, murdered their general, Irish-born Théobald Dillon, whom they accused of treason. While the revolutionary government frantically...
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  • Westmeath, youngest son of Theobald Dillon and his wife Eleanor Tuite. His father would become the first Viscount Dillon in 1622. His father's family...
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    imperialistic tendencies. Through his mother, he was descended from Count Théobald Dillon, who was murdered by his own troops in 1792. While his parents encouraged...
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    Brussels). Rochambeau's subordinate general Biron and maréchal du camp Théobald Dillon would lead the invasion. The French army was plagued by troubles: both...
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  • married in 1604 her distant cousin Sir Christopher Dillon, son of Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon Elizabeth, married Hussey, Baron Galtrim Frances...
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    sign of battle, deserting en masse, in one case murdering General Théobald Dillon. The French soldiers were insulted, hissed, even assaulted. The situation...
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    soldiers deserted en masse and in one case murdered their general, Théobald Dillon. While the revolutionary government frantically raised fresh troops...
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  • residence. He was the third son of Theobald Dillon and his wife Mary Talbot. His father was the 7th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen and supported James II...
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    name to the barony of Gallen in Mayo. Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen, created in 1622 for Theobald Dillon, Lord President of Connaught, held the title...
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    of Marquain, when the routed French troops dragged their commander Théobald Dillon to Lille, where he was torn to pieces by the mob. One of the army commanders...
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  • invasion. Rochambeau's subordinate general Biron and maréchal du camp Théobald Dillon would lead the invasion. The French national anthem, La Marseillaise...
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    Viscount Dillon. He inherited land in Ireland and in England. The Irish lands were the ancestral lands owned by the family since Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount...
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    of Christopher Dillon and his wife Jane Dillon. His father was the eldest son and heir apparent of Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon. Christopher predeceased...
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    dressed civilian, performed a requiem by Gossec for the murdered general Théobald Dillon and the other victims in Lille. In the following weeks Saint-Georges...
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    Ireland for a century. The first Abbess was Cecily Dillon, a daughter of Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon. War forced the community to move back to Galway...
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  • Theobald Dillon of Portlick Castle and his wife Marcella Browne. Theobald was the son of Garrett Dillon of Feamore, County Mayo, a cousin of Theobald...
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    undermined unit cohesion. After a defeat, they were capable of mutiny, as Théobald Dillon learned when his troops lynched him in 1792. The problems of command...
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  • and some of their officers were also executed, such as Théobald Dillon in 1792 and Arthur Dillon. As royalists and Roman Catholics, they were hostile to...
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