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... O'Donnell . Had stage and audience been larger , these two leaders would stand in history along with Hannibal . Uniting their people and driving their armies forward with a skill that rose at times to military genius , these indomitable ...
... O'Donnell . Had stage and audience been larger , these two leaders would stand in history along with Hannibal . Uniting their people and driving their armies forward with a skill that rose at times to military genius , these indomitable ...
Page 66
... O'Donnell and O'Neill , hemming in the be- siegers with a wall of spears . Victory was certain with patience , for famine and disease were wasting the English , but the impetuous O'Donnell insisted upon an attack . Through treachery ...
... O'Donnell and O'Neill , hemming in the be- siegers with a wall of spears . Victory was certain with patience , for famine and disease were wasting the English , but the impetuous O'Donnell insisted upon an attack . Through treachery ...
Page 76
... His grandfather had conspired with O'Donnell against James I. His father had fought under Sir Phelim O'Neill against Charles I , The confiscation of the family estate had been ratified by 76 HIGH LIGHTS OF IRISH HISTORY.
... His grandfather had conspired with O'Donnell against James I. His father had fought under Sir Phelim O'Neill against Charles I , The confiscation of the family estate had been ratified by 76 HIGH LIGHTS OF IRISH HISTORY.
Page 78
... O'Donnell . To Ire- land came William himself in 1690 , and the issue was decided on the banks of the Boyne near Drogheda . The Irish , numbering 26 , - 000 , were poorly equipped , with twelve field- guns as their only artillery , but ...
... O'Donnell . To Ire- land came William himself in 1690 , and the issue was decided on the banks of the Boyne near Drogheda . The Irish , numbering 26 , - 000 , were poorly equipped , with twelve field- guns as their only artillery , but ...
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... O'Donnell , Lord of Tyrconnell , led his saffron - shirted kerns against the mailed warriors of Maurice Fitzgerald , the Norman ; Shane O'Neill , King of Ulster , beat back every English force from 1551 to his death in 1567 ; Hugh O ...
... O'Donnell , Lord of Tyrconnell , led his saffron - shirted kerns against the mailed warriors of Maurice Fitzgerald , the Norman ; Shane O'Neill , King of Ulster , beat back every English force from 1551 to his death in 1567 ; Hugh O ...
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