"The Triskelion" As it's known by the people of the Revolution
Throughout the years after the Second English Civil War, Anglo-Celtic relations had been quite sour, only worsening after George I had died in 1742. George II was on a rampage against the Celtics and used the Celtic nations as a scape-goat as to why they had lost seeing as 60% of the British military had been of Celtic regional origins. This took the form of George II acting more and more strictly on the regions by implementing harsher taxes and removing freedoms.
As a result of the start of the Anglo-American War of 1748 England decided it was to tax not only its colonies at a higher rate but the lower kingdoms of Ire, Scotland, and Wales as well. George II with his hatred the Celts, believed that this was the perfect opportunity to purge himself of the Celts and he did this by comprising 90% of the British military as Celts, sending them off on suicide missions to try and defeat the Americans. Surprisingly, this succeeded, and although the Celts themselves had made some successes on the battlefield, they were not trained to fight the American army with its unique tactics and many casualties were had. Regardless of whether George II thought he would win or not, they lost the war. Giving George II the ultimate reason and scape-goat to unite the people of England; the Celtic Incompetencies.
Upon the end of the war, George II charged a fair amount of returning soldiers with treason and started getting trigger happy with his new group of 'Georgian Reformers' basically a police force dedicated to finding the most minor of infractions performed by anyone of Celtic origin and putting them to the noose.
The Principality of Ire officially declared independence on May 17th, 1752, under the lead of James Grattan. This came as a surprise to many in the English lands, for they had not heard of even James Grattan, who pre-Revolt was a MP in Ireland. The 'Princes' of Ire (somewhat equivalent to the Founding Fathers) prepared their whole revolt in secret, coordinating with those Irish still in the military, as well as the townspeople from Ulster to Connacht, to make sure nothing was heard of this to-be insurrection. Making sure that those trying to escape with this information would be silenced, and letters abroad would be checked just in case they were to be reporting the upcoming insurrection.
On May 20th in 1752, the formalizing of the Civilian militias was complete. Ire was ready for defense. On June 2nd of the same year, George II personally disembarked with an army of 30,000 off of the coast of Wexford. Expecting the fight to be simple and swift. They were welcomed into Wexford with open arms, and it became the point from which they'd launch their campaign. They marched north to Dublin, beating back the Prince of Connacht and the Prince of Leinster in the Battle of Arklow, which devastatingly lost the Militias of both Princes around 2,000 each to being captured by the British. George II maintained around 29,000 after the battle. It seemed as though the Militias couldn't lay a hand on the British army.
George's advisors settled on going in an unconventional zig-zag formation of a route would be ideal in order to confuse any future attackers as to their destination. Not more than a week later, while the British army was camped just south of Greenan, they were bombarded by relatively light artillery. While this didn't do much damage, the attackers fleed north before George could organize his army. The army marched up north to Glendalough, where a small Irish militia headed by the Prince of Ulster, James Grattan, fired potshots then headed into the mountain range. Although his advisors warned him against it, George decided to take a detachment of the only Englishmen in the Army, about 7,000 men's worth and head through the mountain ranges to capture the leader of the resistance. There they found themselves ambushed at Glendalough Pass, where all of the Irish Princes had gathered and had been waiting for this moment.
As George tried to flee, the Ambush at Glendalough Pass had lost him 6,174 of his men. He managed to flee, and went back to the camp he had left from, yet no one was there, and no equipment was left. He tried to flee back south, but without any sort of directional assistance, they started heading towards South-Central Ireland, following the Rossard River, down. This led him into a forest, where he and the rest of his army decided it was safe to camp. On the 28th of June, the rest of his army, showed up, with all their equipment. To George's loss, they had shown up to present their true Celtic colors. They killed every last soldier and left George to die in the forest.
News of the official defeat of the King's Army, and the King himself started getting around. The King's regency was now called, George II's only child had been a Daughter with a Prostitute, and they were required by law of George I to crown her Queen. The age of Queen Alexandra has begun.
As a result of the start of the Anglo-American War of 1748 England decided it was to tax not only its colonies at a higher rate but the lower kingdoms of Ire, Scotland, and Wales as well. George II with his hatred the Celts, believed that this was the perfect opportunity to purge himself of the Celts and he did this by comprising 90% of the British military as Celts, sending them off on suicide missions to try and defeat the Americans. Surprisingly, this succeeded, and although the Celts themselves had made some successes on the battlefield, they were not trained to fight the American army with its unique tactics and many casualties were had. Regardless of whether George II thought he would win or not, they lost the war. Giving George II the ultimate reason and scape-goat to unite the people of England; the Celtic Incompetencies.
Upon the end of the war, George II charged a fair amount of returning soldiers with treason and started getting trigger happy with his new group of 'Georgian Reformers' basically a police force dedicated to finding the most minor of infractions performed by anyone of Celtic origin and putting them to the noose.
The Principality of Ire officially declared independence on May 17th, 1752, under the lead of James Grattan. This came as a surprise to many in the English lands, for they had not heard of even James Grattan, who pre-Revolt was a MP in Ireland. The 'Princes' of Ire (somewhat equivalent to the Founding Fathers) prepared their whole revolt in secret, coordinating with those Irish still in the military, as well as the townspeople from Ulster to Connacht, to make sure nothing was heard of this to-be insurrection. Making sure that those trying to escape with this information would be silenced, and letters abroad would be checked just in case they were to be reporting the upcoming insurrection.
On May 20th in 1752, the formalizing of the Civilian militias was complete. Ire was ready for defense. On June 2nd of the same year, George II personally disembarked with an army of 30,000 off of the coast of Wexford. Expecting the fight to be simple and swift. They were welcomed into Wexford with open arms, and it became the point from which they'd launch their campaign. They marched north to Dublin, beating back the Prince of Connacht and the Prince of Leinster in the Battle of Arklow, which devastatingly lost the Militias of both Princes around 2,000 each to being captured by the British. George II maintained around 29,000 after the battle. It seemed as though the Militias couldn't lay a hand on the British army.
George's advisors settled on going in an unconventional zig-zag formation of a route would be ideal in order to confuse any future attackers as to their destination. Not more than a week later, while the British army was camped just south of Greenan, they were bombarded by relatively light artillery. While this didn't do much damage, the attackers fleed north before George could organize his army. The army marched up north to Glendalough, where a small Irish militia headed by the Prince of Ulster, James Grattan, fired potshots then headed into the mountain range. Although his advisors warned him against it, George decided to take a detachment of the only Englishmen in the Army, about 7,000 men's worth and head through the mountain ranges to capture the leader of the resistance. There they found themselves ambushed at Glendalough Pass, where all of the Irish Princes had gathered and had been waiting for this moment.
As George tried to flee, the Ambush at Glendalough Pass had lost him 6,174 of his men. He managed to flee, and went back to the camp he had left from, yet no one was there, and no equipment was left. He tried to flee back south, but without any sort of directional assistance, they started heading towards South-Central Ireland, following the Rossard River, down. This led him into a forest, where he and the rest of his army decided it was safe to camp. On the 28th of June, the rest of his army, showed up, with all their equipment. To George's loss, they had shown up to present their true Celtic colors. They killed every last soldier and left George to die in the forest.
News of the official defeat of the King's Army, and the King himself started getting around. The King's regency was now called, George II's only child had been a Daughter with a Prostitute, and they were required by law of George I to crown her Queen. The age of Queen Alexandra has begun.
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