With Napoleon's Irish Legion: the Personal Experiences of an Officer of La Legion Irlandaise During the Napoleonic Wars, 1803- 15-Memoirs of Miles Byrne by Fanny Byrne

Napoleon's Irish troops and their battles, recounted by one of their officers

Napoleon Bonaparte recruited to his causes the fighting men of nations which had suffered at the hands of the enemies of Republican and Imperial France. These soldiers hoped that by aligning themselves with French successes they would see their own aspirations for liberty realised. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, it was understandable that in Ireland, which had long suffered under the British yoke, ther...