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John Barrett (Irish soldier)

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he traveled to France where he served as Colonel in the Irish "Gardes du Roi Jaques" and fought at the Battle of Landen. There he led his regiment as the first corps to force an opening in the Williamite entrenchment but was killed in battle.
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where he controlled his Cork regiment and another regiment of foot soldiers from the town. Following the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of the Boyne the Williamite army marched upon Waterford where he was
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where he was to be delivered to England. During his transfer there was an accidental lighting of a powder magazine sinking the vessel. He and a number of other prisoners escaped to shore. After the
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History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, from the revolution in Great Britain and Ireland under James II, to the revolution in France under Louis XVI
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confiscation deprived Barrett, the head of the family at that time, of 12,000 acres (49 km). He was killed in the French service at the
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of 1689. He raised a regiment for King James II during the onset of the Williamite War in Ireland. In 1690 he was the Military Governor of
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies
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Colonel Barrett is noted for raising a regiment of infantry for
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Jacobite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland
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Index

colonel
Cork
Barrett
King James
Irish Army
Williamite War
Battle of the Boyne
surrender Waterford
Williamite
Battle of Landen
Jacobite
Patrick Sarsfield
Member of Parliament
Mallow
Patriot Parliament
Waterford
forced to surrender the town
Siege of Cork
Marlborough
Breda
man-of-war
Treaty of Limerick


"Barrett, John"

O'Callaghan, John Cornelius
Parliament of Ireland
Member of Parliament
Mallow

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