1796.  The Harmful Effects of Peace, Expedition to Bantry Bay No Troops In Action.  Various Accounts of French Invasion.

 

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1796 French Invasion Bantry Bay Anchor

 

False Alarm of French Invasion at Bantry Bay, 1779

 

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Cartoon from Bond Street, London January 1797 on Destruction of French Armada at Bantry Bay.

Notes on the Movement of the French Fleet in Bantry Bay and Panic in Bantry on Friday the 23rd December 1796, the women seek asylum in Bandon or Cork or to the Kerry Hills from a contemporaneous note by Edward Morgan.

 

Imagined Landing of the French in Bantry Bay 1796 from the London Printing and Publishing Company

 

1822 Petition of Joshua H Cox, Manor House, Dunmanway for continuance of Mother’s Pension of £200 Mentions Favourable Treatment of French Officers in 1796, French Officers on Parole entertained at Balls, Petition of Herbert Gillman, Woodbrook, Dunmanway, to be Re-Instated as Magistrate, Mentions his Role in preventing Spread of the ‘Insurrectionary Spirit’ in the South of Ireland in the Winter of 1821, Other Baldwin Magistrates, Co. Cork.

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“Effects of peace”; ten figures in two rows soliloquiz on the blessings of peace. The last, a foppish young officer, alludes to the expeditions of Bantry Bay and Fishguard, in neither of which were troops in action. The intention appears to be to show the harmful effects of peace.

 

 

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