Click2FamousTrials - Wolfe Tone - Chapter 2

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>WOLFE TONE: IRELAND'S HERO</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 2 - WHO WAS WOLFE TONE?</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"><a href="http://www.library.villanova.edu/html2/speccoll/gif/62.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Wolfe Tone</b></a> was the <a href="http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/warindep/photo-7.gif" target="_blank"><b>George Washington</b></a> of Ireland - with one big difference. Washington's revolution <a href="http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/warindep/photo-22.gif" target="_blank"><b>was successful</b></a>, and the United States became an independent nation. Wolfe Tone's revolution was crushed, and Wolfe Tone became a martyr.</p> <p align="justify">When the American colonists declared they were no longer subjects of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/images/george-III_lrg.jpg"><b>George III</b></a>, Wolfe Tone was 13 years old. When <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/jefferson.jpeg"><b>Thomas Jefferson</b></a> wrote the Declaration of Independence, separating the thirteen colonies from British control, Wolfe Tone had a model to follow.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="wolfe_tone_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER </a>     <a href="wolfe_tone_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>