![[Lib]erty, Equality, Fraternity, Unio[n,] Irishmen, You have not forgot Bantry bay. You know what efforts France has made to assist you.](/IIIF/000030000/000021622/vtls000021622_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Lib]erty, Equality, Fraternity, Unio[n,] Irishmen, You have not forgot Bantry bay. You know what efforts France has made to assist you.
| Summary: | Proclamation issued by the French forces which landed at Kilcummin Bay near Killala, Co. Mayo, on 22 August 1798. Handwritten on verso, in iron gall ink: ‘Robert Travers to Borgle Travers Captain John Travers Nicholas English Esq. Archbishop Surgeon Price Captain John Travers (?) To R. Travers’'. The broadside also has another manuscript note [written in iron gall ink] in a contemporary hand on the verso - 'Brought by Coln. Craffords servant from Ballynemock'. [Ballinamuck, Co. Longford]. Colonel Robert Crauford was a commander of General Lake's at Ballinamuck, Co. Longford - where Humbert was defeated. There is a third partial script possibly in French. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[France] :
[s.n.],
[n.d., ca. 1798].
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| Notes: | Title from opening words of text. This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 composite sheet [three separate laid sheets adhered together horizontally]; 85 x 51 cm.. Varying form of title: [Proclamation issued by the French force which landed at Kilcummin Bay near Killala, Co. Mayo, on 22 August 1798]. Varying form of title: Irishmen, You have not forgot Bantry bay. You know what efforts France has made to assist you. more |