Excerpt from 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 The present volume is an effort to rescue from comparative oblivion one of the many extraordinary episodes of the great French revolutionary war. Cortez and Pizarro, and scores of minor conquerors - nay, even buccaneers like Morgan - have found their panegyrists, but on the subject of General Humbert's descent upon Ireland in 1798 history is almost silent. Scarcely more than two years ago an English general - if I mistake not, Lord Wolseley in a public speech referred to the glorious fact that the United Kingdom had not been insulted by the presence of an armed invader since the days of Will iam the Conqueror. The speaker's ignorance was excusable, seeing that the majority of English his tories barely mention Humbert's name. None of them do justice to the magnitude of his achievefl merits, or recount, in a manner worthy of the sub jcet, the exploits which carried his small army to the very heart of Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.