Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
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Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke was a Russian nobleman and military leader of Irish descent who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and achieved the rank of lieutenant general. He is noted for leading a cam
Portrait by George Dawe, 1820–1825
Monument to O'Rourke in Varvarin, Serbia
Flight of the Wild Geese
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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
Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
…1910 on the centennial celebration of their victory against the Turks. The O'Rourke family were originally members of the Jacobite Irish nobility; they fled Ireland after the defeat by the Protestant Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in 1691. The majority of the family moved as refugees to France during this…
A depiction by Charles Oliver Murray of Irish Jacobite soldiers leaving Limerick amidst chaotic scenes in 1691
A depiction of women and children on the quay at Limerick while the Irish Jacobite soldiers depart for France
Picture displaying the uniform of the Regimiento de Infantería Irlanda
Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century