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Thursday, 31 March 2022
The Wild Geese
An interesting history of the Irish Regiments which switched from James II to Louis the 14th army.
I did a paper on these units for my BA Irish history course, but my prof wasn't a fan of military history.
Of interest, these units were unable to recruit any new Irishmen after 1746 due to the fact that they had served in Scotland.
Eventually by the time of the Napoleonic period, they were stuck off strength.
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