The Wild Geese: The Irish Brigades of France and Spain by Mark McLaughlin

The Wild Geese: The Irish Brigades of France and Spain

Mark McLaughlin with Chris Warner (Illustrator)

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In the early years of the English Civil War (1642-1651), a French traveller in England remarked that the Irish are better soldiers abroad than at home. Between 1585 and 1818, over half a million Irish were lured from their homeland by promises of ...

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