Resultado de búsqueda
Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. Anne, Viscountess Sarsfield. Patrick Sarsfield was an Irish landowner and soldier of the seventeenth century noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars. He is best known as the father of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, and is sometimes referred to as Patrick Sarsfield the Elder because of this.
Patrick Sarsfield is thought to have been born on his family estate near Lucan in County Kildare in, or around 1650. His father, also Patrick, was of Anglo-Norman descent and his mother, Anne, was a daughter of the great Gaelic chieftain, Rory O’ Moore, who helped organise the rebellion of 1641.
General Patrick Sarsfield defended Limerick successfully during the Willamite sieges of 1690 and 1691 and signed the Treaty of Limerick to end the siege, he left Ireland for France with his Jacobite army, their departure later became know, as the Flight of the Wild Geese. Patrick Sarsfield died from wounds he received at the battle of Landen 1693.
1 de mar. de 2021 · Dr Loïc Guyon, the French Honorary Consul remarked “2021 marks the 330th anniversary of the Siege of Limerick and the project to bring Patrick Sarsfield home is timely in that regards. He was an important figure in Irish and French history but he died in a country not of his choosing. It is an ambitious project but we believe an important one.
In the campaign of 1691 he held a subordinate position under St. Ruth. The two often disagreed, and at Aughrim St. Ruth allowed Sarsfield no active share in the battle, leaving him in command of the cavalry reserve. When St. Ruth fell Sarsfield could not turn defeat into victory, but he saved the Irish from utter destruction.
Sarsfield commanded the Irish troops in England in 1688, but fled to France with James, returning with him to Ireland in 1689. In the war that followed Sarsfield rose rapidly to major‐general. His attacks on Williamite supply lines forced the raising of the first siege of Limerick but, after defeat at Aughrim, he concluded the second siege of Limerick on terms which allowed him to sail for ...
16 de feb. de 2021 · A group seeking to locate the remains of Patrick Sarsfield, the famous historical figure who led the Jacobite army in the siege of Limerick in 1691, have had a breakthrough in their search and ...
