1798年的海军起义：爱尔兰人夺取海峡舰队的计划

English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781399044592 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 14.26 MB

The United Irish plot in 1798 aimed to capture British warships, revealing a lesser-known aspect of Irish rebellion history.

For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France. Set in motion by the Society of United Irishmen, an underground organisation with links to Paris, the rebellion was eventually crushed by an overwhelming force of arms. In this new, dramatic account, Philip MacDougall shines a light on a little covered aspect of this history: the United Irish plot to capture a number of British warships and the planned use of those vessels in support of the rebellion that broke out in 1798. The means by which those ships were to be taken, not by direct external attack but by mutinous intrigue directed from on board, is fully explored.

While ships blockading the French port of Brest returned to re-victual in Cawsand Bay, with many of the officers on shore leave, it was an ideal time for the plotting of mutinies. United Irishman alongside English and Scottish republicans could safely mix with those on other ships to develop a unified strategy.

This book offers a micro study of how the planned mutiny plot developed and was co-ordinated. Personalities, cliques and idealists are seen as taking leading roles, with attention given to the motivating issues that lay behind those risk takers who knew that failure would result in likely hanging from the yardarm. Based on research from the National Archives, contemporary newspaper reports and the detailed hand written minutes of the courts martial held upon those identified as rebel leaders and some of their supporters (containing the actual words of the people of the lower deck) this is a full and balanced account of the plot which, if successful, would have re-written history.

1798年爱尔兰起义旨在夺取英国的战舰，揭示了爱尔兰叛乱史上的一个鲜为人知方面。 当年1798年的爱尔兰，爆发了一场反抗伦敦统治的重大起义，在此期间，英国正与反革命法国进行了五年的艰苦战争。这一起义由秘密组织“统一爱尔兰会”发动，该组织与巴黎有联系。最终，起义被压下了。在这一新近、戏剧性的叙述中，菲利普·麦当霍尔（Philip MacDougall）照亮了这段历史的一个鲜为人知的方面：统一爱尔兰会计划夺取英国战舰，并利用那些船只支持1798年爆发的起义。如何采取这些船——不是通过外部直接攻击，而是通过船上叛乱阴谋引导，这一手段被全面探究。 当封锁法国布列斯特港口的战舰返回在卡瓦索湾补充物资时，很多岸上人员正在休假，这正是策划叛变的最佳时机。爱尔兰统一派、英伦共和主义者和苏格兰共和主义者可以在其他船只上混编，共同制定统一的战略。 这本书提供了一个微观看法，分析了计划中的叛乱是如何发展的，并如何协调的。它关注的人物、团体以及理想主义者被视为领导者，同时关注了那些知道失败意味着他们可能面临从桅杆上被吊死的风险的人所面临的压力和动机问题。基于国家档案馆的研究、当代报纸报道及对那些被认为起义领袖及其支持者的军事法庭记录（其中包括底层甲板上人们的实际言论），这是一份全面平衡的计划描述，如果成功实施的话，将重新书写历史。

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