The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following
Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century
Portumna castle. Wild Geese heritage museum.
Picture displaying the uniform of the Regimiento de Infantería Irlanda
Flags of the Irish regiments in French service
Peter Graf von Lacy was an Irish-born soldier who later served in the Imperial Russian Army.
Lacy on 18th-century portrait