HAYES, Richard. Irish Swordsmen of France.

With a foreword by Rev. Patrick Browne. Illustrated. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1934. First edition. pp. xix, [1], 307. Cream papered boards, title in dark blue on upper cover and on spine.  A good copy. Scarce.

In this work Dr. Hayes gives us a detailed account of the careers of six distinguished Irish officers in the French army: General Theobald Dillon; General James O'Moran; Colonel Arthur Dillon; General Charles (Jennings) Kilmaine; General Thomas Arthur Lally and Colonel Richard Warren. Four of these were living when the Revolution came, and continued to hold their commissions in the revolutionary army. In fact they were promoted to the highest ranks, although later they were suspected by the 'pure' Republicans, who found it difficult to believe that the Stuart-loving Irish could be anything else but royalist. They, like most Irishmen in France, aspired towards the liberation of Ireland by various schemes.

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