Click2FamousTrials - Wolfe Tone - Chapter 8

<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 8 - STRIKE TWO</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">Before Tone could finalize new plans, Irish rebels began an <b>uprising</b> in County Wexford in the spring of 1798. Located in southeast Ireland, <a href="http://www.library.villanova.edu/html2/speccoll/gif/92.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Wexford rebels</b></a> believed the French could easily come to their aid. However, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/napoleon.jpg"><b>Napoleon Bonaparte</b></a> was now Commander of the French Army, and he had plans for his troops. Those plans did not include <a href="http://www.library.villanova.edu/html2/speccoll/gif/82.jpg" target="_blank"><b>battles</b></a> in Ireland.</p> <p align="justify">By the time a French relief expedition was hastily put together, <a href="http://www.irishclans.com/articles/g/1798rebels1-lg.gif" target="_blank"><b>Irish rebels</b></a> had been defeated at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.library.villanova.edu/html2/speccoll/gif/22.jpg"><b>Vinegar Hill</b></a> in County Wexford. Communication then was not like communication today. French forces showed up two months too late. </p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="wolfe_tone_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="wolfe_tone_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="wolfe_tone_ch9.htm"> GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>