Thomas Pakenham Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5 Painting ID:: 49396 new17/Thomas Pakenham-685376.jpg
Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5 mk197
About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.
Thomas Pakenham McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait Painting ID:: 49398 new17/Thomas Pakenham-274655.jpg
McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait mk197
As commander of the United army of Antrim he was one of the few original political leaders of the movement to take part in a battle
Thomas Pakenham Belfast Assembly Rooms Painting ID:: 49399 new17/Thomas Pakenham-844869.jpg
Belfast Assembly Rooms mk197
where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged
Thomas Pakenham The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798 Painting ID:: 49400 new17/Thomas Pakenham-798953.jpg
The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798 mk197
Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto
Thomas Pakenham The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops Painting ID:: 49401 new17/Thomas Pakenham-636483.jpg
The United army of Down has been broken b the King-s troops mk197
Gerneral Nugent wave to some dragoons rideing in with the rebel-s Liberty standards
Thomas Pakenham The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford Painting ID:: 49402 new17/Thomas Pakenham-772633.jpg
The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford mk197
on 20 June,
ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river
Thomas Pakenham General John Moore Painting ID:: 49403 new17/Thomas Pakenham-493324.jpg
General John Moore mk197
later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June
Thomas Pakenham William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798 Painting ID:: 49404 new17/Thomas Pakenham-584659.jpg
William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798 mk197
painted in the 1880s
The Hessians were German mercenaries,notorious for atrocities against unarmed men and women
Thomas Pakenham A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880 Painting ID:: 49405 new17/Thomas Pakenham-485872.jpg
A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880 mk197
Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage
Thomas Pakenham Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded Painting ID:: 49406 new17/Thomas Pakenham-435627.jpg
Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded mk197
Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland
Thomas Pakenham The Unfortunate Henry Sheares Painting ID:: 49407 new17/Thomas Pakenham-867272.jpg
The Unfortunate Henry Sheares mk197
With his brother John
he was arrested before the rising convicted of high treason in July,and hanged in Dublin
Thomas Pakenham Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition Painting ID:: 49408 new17/Thomas Pakenham-948792.jpg
Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition mk197
supposed to have corrupted his cousin.Lord Edward Fitzgerald,whose ghost haunts him in his villa near London,together with the headless bodies of the Sheares brothers and other conspirators
Thomas Pakenham In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands Painting ID:: 49409 new17/Thomas Pakenham-962552.jpg
In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands mk197
but 2000 rebels were repulsed by twenty-seven yeomen in a fortified post at Clonard,County Meath
Thomas Pakenham The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht Painting ID:: 49410 new17/Thomas Pakenham-383796.jpg
The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht mk197
William Sadler-s reconstruction of Humbert-s troop landing at Killala on 22 August
Thomas Pakenham The Revolutionary army in action Painting ID:: 49411 new17/Thomas Pakenham-274475.jpg
The Revolutionary army in action mk197
A detail from a contemporary picture of Napoleon-s victory at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798
Thomas Pakenham Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel Painting ID:: 49412 new17/Thomas Pakenham-272864.jpg
Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel mk197
Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar
Thomas Pakenham Erin Go Bray Painting ID:: 49413 new17/Thomas Pakenham-436684.jpg
Erin Go Bray mk197
An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798
Thomas Pakenham General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck Painting ID:: 49414 new17/Thomas Pakenham-942785.jpg
General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck mk197
Less chivalrous was Lake-s treatment of France-s Irish allies capturad after the battle
Thomas Pakenham General Napper Tandy Painting ID:: 49415 new17/Thomas Pakenham-453623.jpg
General Napper Tandy mk197
Tone-s bitter rival
Thomas Pakenham Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly Painting ID:: 49416 new17/Thomas Pakenham-968842.jpg
Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly mk197
The French and their Irish allies fought with desperate courage
Thomas Pakenham Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin Painting ID:: 49417 new17/Thomas Pakenham-564283.jpg
Wolfe Tone in the Uniform of a French Adjutant general as he apeared at his court-martial in Dublin mk197
He had no illusions of what was in store for him
Thomas Pakenham His death mask in his alma mater Painting ID:: 49418 new17/Thomas Pakenham-678668.jpg
His death mask in his alma mater mk197
Trinity College,Dublin
Thomas Pakenham A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print Painting ID:: 49419 new17/Thomas Pakenham-899296.jpg
A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print mk197
Led by Michael Dwyer and Joseph Holt,rebels adopted guerrilla war in Wicklow,which took several years to burn itself out
Thomas Pakenham Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow Painting ID:: 49420 new17/Thomas Pakenham-743729.jpg
Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow mk197
He was later transported to Botany Bay
Thomas Pakenham Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet Painting ID:: 49421 new17/Thomas Pakenham-275384.jpg
Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet mk197
the United Irish leader
Thomas Pakenham Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803 Painting ID:: 49422 new17/Thomas Pakenham-342932.jpg
Thomas Street,Dubli the Scene of Rober Emmet-s execution in 1803 mk197
Late nineteenth-century engraving
Thomas Pakenham The United Irish Patriots of 1798 Painting ID:: 49423 new17/Thomas Pakenham-242524.jpg
The United Irish Patriots of 1798 mk197
reincarnated in 1898 for the first centenary of the rebellion
Thomas Pakenham Hunted Down Painting ID:: 49424 new17/Thomas Pakenham-254335.jpg
Hunted Down mk197
By the time of the first 98 centenary the rebellion was rememb er not as a horrific civil war but as a simple story of a people-s Struggle against their oppressors
Thomas Pakenham daughter Painting ID:: 74992 new24/Thomas Pakenham-354994.jpg
daughter The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783.