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Author George B. Clarke
From the late seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, Irish soldiers fought on almost every European battle-field of consequence. Driven from their own country by religious and political persecution, these men were forced to make a life for themselves fighting in the armies of Continental Europe. From Peter Lacy of Kileedy, who be-came Field Marshal of Russia in 1736, to Henri J.G. Clarke, who joined the French army in 1782, became a Marshal under Napoleon and then switched his allegiance, serving the newly restored French monarchy until his retirement in 1817, Irish Soldiers in Europe tells the story of the Irishmen whose successes in Europe went far beyond what they might have accomplished had they remained in their native land.
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