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 . 1. GENERAL SARRAZIN, OF IRELAND IN gS. 45 begin with, a remarkable figure in his way, whosecareer, like Humberts, may be considered thor-oughly illustrative of the peculiar conditions cre-ated in the military system of France by thechange in her political life. Born in 1770, the thirdyear of the revolution already saw him a captainof infantry. In 1794 he was transferred to the En-gineers, but shortly after, in consequence of prow-ess in the fiel
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 . 1. GENERAL SARRAZIN, OF IRELAND IN gS. 45 begin with, a remarkable figure in his way, whosecareer, like Humberts, may be considered thor-oughly illustrative of the peculiar conditions cre-ated in the military system of France by thechange in her political life. Born in 1770, the thirdyear of the revolution already saw him a captainof infantry. In 1794 he was transferred to the En-gineers, but shortly after, in consequence of prow-ess in the field, received his commission as colonelof the Fourteenth Regiment of Dragoons. In1796 he was already a general-adjutant, and, aswill soon be shown, the Irish Campaign broughthim further promotion. Sarrazin, in other words,was the true type of the French Republican sol-dier: a product of those troublesome and stormytimes when success meant rapid rise to honors anddistinctions, and failure—the gory embrace of theguillotine !? Next in authority after Sarrazincame Adjutant-General Louis Octave Fontaine, towhose pen the author is indebted for a remar
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