The United Irishmen take Enniscorthy 1798

#OnThisDay 1798 United Irishmen took Enniscorthy, following their success at Oulart Hill. The rebels managed to dislodge the garrison of 300 but at a loss of many hundreds themselves. Loyalist town dwellers also fled. The UI established a camp on Vinegar Hill.

Image

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s