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Uprising against British rule in Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irish Rebellion of 1798 | |||||||
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Part of the Atlantic Revolutions and the French Revolutionary Wars | |||||||
Defeat of the Rebels at Vinegar Hill, by George Cruikshank | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Irish Republic |
Great Britain Ireland | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wolfe Tone Henry Joy McCracken Lord Edward FitzGerald John Murphy General Jean Humbert Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart |
General George Warde MGO Charles The 1st Marquess Cornwallis Lt. Gen. Gerard Lake Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Commodore John Warren | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
50,000 United Irishmen 4,100 French regulars 10 French Navy ships[1] |
40,000 militia 30,000 British regulars ~25,000 yeomanry ~1,000 Hessians | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
10,000[2]–50,000[3] estimated combatant and civilian deaths 3,500 French captured 7 French ships captured |
500-2,000 military deaths[4] c.1,000 loyalist civilian deaths [5] |
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Hurries[6]) was an uprising against British rule in Ireland. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion, led by Presbyterians angry at being shut out of power by the Anglican establishment and joined by Catholics, who made up the majority of the population. A French army which landed in County Mayo in support of the rebels was overwhelmed by British and loyalist forces. The uprising was suppressed by British Crown forces with a death toll of between 10,000 and 30,000.