Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign of 1815

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Title

Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign of 1815

Subject

Ireland
Waterloo
Napoleonic Wars
Irish Soldier
1815
Wellington

Description

Ireland’s experience of the Waterloo campaign has been consistently under-explored, despite the degree of attention paid to the campaign by historians. This paper shows that that experience was far more significant and multi-faceted than has generally been recognised. Irish people played an important practical role in the events of 1815. Irish soldiers saw service in their thousands during the campaign, at every rank from private to general. These men represented a comprehensive cross-section of contemporary Ireland, coming from every county on the island and from every kind of socio-economic background. Some Irish soldiers and military units earned distinction for their actions on the battlefield and a number of participants from the country left valuable primary testimony. Civilian Irish women and children were also caught up in events in Belgium. Domestically, Ireland was a centre of activity as hostilities against Napoleon developed and analysis of contemporary media coverage and private correspondence makes it clear that ongoing events on the Continent had a keenly engaged Irish audience. Waterloo also left a distinctive legacy for Ireland and for Irish people. This paper explores all of these issues in detail, providing a thorough examination based on primary sources to address the impact of Waterloo on Ireland, and of the Irish on Waterloo.

Creator

Molloy, Peter

Source

Journal Of Military History and Defence Studies; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020): Journal of Military History and Defence Studies, January 2020
2712-0171

Publisher

Maynooth Academic Publishing

Date

2020-02-09

Rights

Copyright (c) 2020 Journal Of Military History and Defence Studies
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Peter Molloy, Ireland and the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, Maynooth Academic Publishing, 2020, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2559

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