Great Irishmen in war and politics . I. Lt. Michael Lt. James M. Sct. John Pte. Henry Kenny. IRISH VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS. 2. Sct. Wm. Pte. John Pte. W. Drummer Wm. Kenny. 3. Cpl. Wm. R. E. Sgt. Thos. Sgt. S. Meekosha. To face page 164. IRISH REGIMENTS colours, and in the Crimea, when they added Sevastopol to their honours. They were in the Indian Mutiny ; theywere in Egypt, at Tel-el-Kebir, at El-Teb, where theyhelped to hold the square ; and again at Tamai. Theyfurnished detachments to the
Great Irishmen in war and politics . I. Lt. Michael Lt. James M. Sct. John Pte. Henry Kenny. IRISH VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS. 2. Sct. Wm. Pte. John Pte. W. Drummer Wm. Kenny. 3. Cpl. Wm. R. E. Sgt. Thos. Sgt. S. Meekosha. To face page 164. IRISH REGIMENTS colours, and in the Crimea, when they added Sevastopol to their honours. They were in the Indian Mutiny ; theywere in Egypt, at Tel-el-Kebir, at El-Teb, where theyhelped to hold the square ; and again at Tamai. Theyfurnished detachments to the Ashanti Campaign of 1895,to the Rhodesian Expedition in 1896 and to the Battleof Omdurman in 1898. The Connaught Rangers, who, before the Crimean War,had been in the Ionian Islands, in the West Indies andNorth America without much chance of fighting, got theirfill of it between 1854 and 1856. They carry Alma and Inkerman as well as Sevastopol on their colours, andfrom the savage winters of the Crimea they were sent tosweltering Indi
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