The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the Irish Brigade Under Montrose in 1644-46 |
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... formed about half of the Royalist force ; and in the battle of Kilsyth alone they were greatly out - numbered by the Highlanders - Montrose's raid through Breadalbane , Glenorchy , Cantyre , and Lorne , the territories of Argyle , in ...
... formed about half of the Royalist force ; and in the battle of Kilsyth alone they were greatly out - numbered by the Highlanders - Montrose's raid through Breadalbane , Glenorchy , Cantyre , and Lorne , the territories of Argyle , in ...
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... forming settlements in Ireland . They had been scarcely distinguishable hitherto from the native race , but they were capable of being reclaimed . Their chief , Sir Randal MacDon- nell , or MacConnell , was created Earl of Antrim . The ...
... forming settlements in Ireland . They had been scarcely distinguishable hitherto from the native race , but they were capable of being reclaimed . Their chief , Sir Randal MacDon- nell , or MacConnell , was created Earl of Antrim . The ...
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... formed an immediate " solemn league and covenant , " from John O'Groat's to St. Michael's Mount , and an insurrection , which for a few months would have been called a rebellion , but soon , on its certain success , a civil war for the ...
... formed an immediate " solemn league and covenant , " from John O'Groat's to St. Michael's Mount , and an insurrection , which for a few months would have been called a rebellion , but soon , on its certain success , a civil war for the ...
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... formed at the present time of 600 Antrim Orangemen and 200 Kerry Fenians would , in the event of a struggle to separate Ireland from England , fall into two factions athirst each for the other's blood . I have no authority for asserting ...
... formed at the present time of 600 Antrim Orangemen and 200 Kerry Fenians would , in the event of a struggle to separate Ireland from England , fall into two factions athirst each for the other's blood . I have no authority for asserting ...
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... formed into a wedge - shaped regiment , the front edge of which was formed of the chief and gentry of the clan , who were always the best armed , and usually the largest and strongest men . Just before the charge they fired into the ...
... formed into a wedge - shaped regiment , the front edge of which was formed of the chief and gentry of the clan , who were always the best armed , and usually the largest and strongest men . Just before the charge they fired into the ...
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Page 169 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 5 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 163 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 132 - Parliaments, imprisonments and prosecution of members, ship-money, an arbitrary administration; these were loudly complained of: but the grievances which tended chiefly to inflame the Parliament and nation, especially the latter, were the surplice, the rails placed about the altar, the bows exacted on approaching it, the liturgy, the breach of the sabbath, embroidered copes, lawn sleeves, the use of the ring in marriage, and of the cross in baptism. On account of these...
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Page 95 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard too have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which...
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Page 3 - ... the superior part has a natural right to govern, the inferior part has a natural right to be governed: and a rude but adequate tests of superiority and inferiority is provided in the relative strength of the different orders of human beings.