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List of Irishmen who served
in the Armies of France; extracted from the De la Ponce
M.S.S., in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
In 1759, the French
Government commanded preparations on an extensive scale to be
made for the invasion of the British Isles. Twenty-five
thousand men, including the Irish Brigade, were to take part
in the enterprise; and the enthusiastic Franco-Irish Officers
did not doubt that, if the force could once land and obtain a
first success, the whole Catholic population of Ireland would
rise to support it.
(Vol. II, 799,800. Irish
Pedigrees or The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John
O'Hart published in 1892 by James Duffy & Co. Ltd.)
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