Irish Republic (1798)

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The Irish Republic of 1798, more commonly called the Republic of Connacht, was a short lived puppet state of the French Republic proclaimed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 that resulted from the French Revolutionary Wars. In theory the Republic was to cover the whole island of Ireland, but its functional control was limited to only very small parts of the Province of Connacht.

Establishment

August 1798: The Irish Republic of 1798, more commonly called the Republic of Connacht, was a short lived puppet state proclaimed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 that resulted from the French Revolutionary Wars. In theory the republic was to cover the whole island of Ireland, but its functional control was limited to only very small parts of the Province of Connacht. The rebel republic was a puppet state of the French Republic and was very short lived.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

1.1.Irish Rebellion of 1798

Was an uprising against British rule in Ireland.

1.1.1.Connacht Republic (Irish Rebellion of 1798)

Was a major uprising against British rule in Ireland.

September 1798: The British army then slowly spread out into the rebel held Province of Connacht in a brutal campaign of killing and house burning which reached its climax on 23 September 1798 when Killala was stormed and retaken with much slaughter.