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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
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of a patriotic Irishman, morethan a hundred thousand were driven out, and most of themcame to the American Colonies. They came with a grievance,and hence we find the Irish everywhere on the firing line andreadiest of the ready in the war for independence. You lostAmerica by the Irish, declared Lord Mountjoy in the BritishParliament. The first blow, four months before Lexington, was struck byJohn Sullivan, from the rugged hills of old Desmond in ancientKerry. He captured the British military stores at Portsmouth,thus crippling their operations. First in the Navy. The first British warship was captured by OBrien,a Corkonian.The first official father of the American navy was Jack Barry,who hailed from gallant little Wexford, and the first Americangeneral to fall on the field of battle was Montgomery, an Irish-man. It was the Irish Stark that drove the British Tories andtheir Indian allies from the field at Bennington. The Irishgenerals, Ewing, Hand, Griffin, Stark and Conway, with their
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THE HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Ex-President of the United States. Elected Member of the Society. i»97.tlected First Honorary Member. April, ion AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 145 countrymen, helped to sweep Burgoyneand his redcoats from thefield at Saratoga. It was two of these same generals with twoother Irish generals—Butler and Wilson—that were withWashington when he crossed the Delaware and who with himsurprised the British at the battle of Trenton. They were alsowith him when Cornwallis handed over his sword through theIrish general, OHara, to the American general, Lincoln, atYorktown. When Washington went as Commander-in-Chief of the armyin 1775 he was accompanied by General Joseph Reed—his firstaide and secretary. Reed was born in Trenton of Irish parents.He distinguished himself at Brandywine, Germantown andMonmouth. The Irish Signers. Three signers of the Declaration of Independence—Thornton,Smith and Taylor—were Irish by birth, while five more were ofdirect Iris

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