THE LAST COLONEL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE : COUNT O'CONNELL AND IRISH LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1745-1833 (TWO VOUMES)

Author: O'Connell, Mrs. Morgan John
Title: THE LAST COLONEL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE : COUNT O'CONNELL AND IRISH LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1745-1833 (TWO VOUMES)
Publication: London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1892
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Matching set of two: Octavo, 9 in. x 6 in. Each illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispieces. Green cloth boards with black bands stamped to top and bottom of boards. Gilt title to front and spine. Blue topstain. Rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly nudged. Black endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate and name to front pastedowns.
Volume I: pp. xix, [1], 335, 1-64 (advertising).
Volume II; pp. xii, 361. Good Plus.

Bookplate reads: "Society of Writers to her Majesty's Signet." As well, "Signet Library" written in pen on top of black front pastedowns.

Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell (21 May 1745 - 9 July 1833) was the uncle of Daniel O'Connell "the Liberator." Because of the Penal Laws (Ireland) of the time, which forbade a Catholic to have any education or profession, he, like many other ambitious young Irishmen, went to the Continent for an education, and remained abroad. He entered the service of the king of France in the Royal Swedish Regiment in 1761, and in 1769 was transferred to Lord Clare's Regiment of the Irish Brigade (French) and served in Europe and Mauritius until 1778.

Then he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and transferred back to the Royal Swedish Regiment, with which he saw action at the siege of Port Mahon and at the Great Siege of Gibraltar. "At Gibraltar he was on board one of the famous floating batteries and was severely wounded." He was later appointed Colonel Commander of the Régiment de Salm-Salm... Daniel Charles O'Connell was created Count O'Connell by Louis XVI in 1785. He became an officer in the French king's Irish Brigade. He was a friend of, among others, Benoît de Boigne. O'Connell left France for England after the French Revolution.

The laws against Catholics were weakening, and in 1794, at the instigation of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, he now joined the British Army and raised the fourth regiment of the Irish Brigade of the British Army, which he commanded until the corps was disbanded. After visiting France in 1802, he was seized by Napoleon, and remained his prisoner until 1814.[ He died at Blois, France ... holding the ranks of General in the French and Colonel in the British army. (from Wikipedia).

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Subject: Irish & Ireland: History