Abstract

Historians have not been very kind with General Humbert and his little « Armée d'Irlande ». And yet, he was able to frighten both Dublin Castle and the Cabinet of St James by inflicting on the Crown forces in Castlebar a defeat as humiliating as Saratoga or Yorktown. Without reinforcement, Humbert could not win, but this article suggest that it would not be as easy as it is to dismiss this military episode if he had opted, against his instructions, for the distribution of land and social revolution on a grand scale.

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