The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . ictorious, the French al-ways sacrificed one or more of their meagre a few miles of Manor Hamilton Humbertlearned of the concentration of rebel troops aroundthe town of Granard, and conceiving at last that hisonly remaining hope lay in attaining this point,whereby he would gain a strategical position ofgreat value between the royal army and Dublin, hewheeled to the right and directed his steps towardthe south. The same scenes that h
The French invasion of Ireland in '98 Leaves of unwritten history that tell of an heroic endeavor and a lost opportunity to throw off England's yoke . ictorious, the French al-ways sacrificed one or more of their meagre a few miles of Manor Hamilton Humbertlearned of the concentration of rebel troops aroundthe town of Granard, and conceiving at last that hisonly remaining hope lay in attaining this point,whereby he would gain a strategical position ofgreat value between the royal army and Dublin, hewheeled to the right and directed his steps towardthe south. The same scenes that had marked his progressfrom Colooney attended the latter portion of themarch. Crawford still hung obstinately on his rear,and harassed him unceasingly with feints and par-tial attacks. Between Drumshambo and Ballyna-more, however, the English officer overstepped thebounds of caution and made a general attack, whichresulted disastrously for him, many of his menbeing killed or wounded and the remainder putto flight. Humbert was only prevented from sur-rounding the British on this occasion by the mis-taken idea that he was engaged with Lakes entire. OF IRELAND IN gS. 129 army. On the afternoon of the 7th the Frenchpassed the River Shannon at Ballintra, but so closewas the pursuit that they were unable to destroythe bridge, as had been their intention. The pow-der used by Fontaine, who had charge of the opera-tion, proved insufficient for the purpose, and only aslight break was made, which the British afterwardrepaired with the ruins of an adjacent house. Atnightfall the French arrived at Cloone, and suchwas the exhausted condition of his men that Hum-bert found himself forced to give them a couple ofhours rest. It was at Cloone that he received details of theprogress of affairs in Longford and Westmeath. Adelegation of insurgents from the neighborhood ofGranard informed him that this post had been inef-fectually assailed by 6,000 men on the morning ofthe 5th, and that the following
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