Prologue Part II
1797, January: Hoche and Tone land at Bantry Bay. Isolated risings begin across Munster, savagely put down in most cases by local militia and Yeomanry.
1797, February-March: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Kinsale. Cork falls to Hoche; declaration of the Republic of Munster. United Irishman rise in Mayo, Wicklow and Wexford.
1797, March-June: Battle of Charleville. Limerick falls to Hoche. After heavy fighting the Brish drive the rebels from Wicklow and secure Dublin. General Cornwallis assumes command.
1797, July: Rising spreads to Ulster. United Irishman leader Henry Joy McCracken marches on Belfast.
1797, August: Against expectations Hoche does not march on Galway but instead turns to link up with the Wexford rebels. Thousands of Irish peasants have joined him but they are left behind in Cork (under Tone) to train and drill properly.
1797, November: Hoche is repulsed from Dublin at the Battle of Dunleary. He moves camp to Naas for the winter.
1798: The French make several attempts at landing reinforcements, eventually succeding in landing 3000 soldiers at Youghal under General Humbert.
1798, February: The 'Irish Army' under Tone has finished training and stiffened with French officers advances on Galway.
1798, March: Inconclusive 2nd Battle of Naas between Hoche and Cornwallis. The British are unable to prevent Humbert linking up with Hoche.
1798, April-June: Tone takes Galway. The British position west of the Shannon begins to crumble as large numbers of militiamen desert to the rebel cause.
1798, July: Lord Edward Fitzgerald leads a United Irishman rising in Dublin, having managed to get word to Hoche and Humbert. In the most ferocious fighting of the rebellion so far the British forces rout and Dublin falls to the rebels. Cornwallis is injured in the battle and his second in command General Lake is killed.
The (Ascendancy) Irish Government flees to to Drogheda. Declaration of the Republic of Ireland - with Tone as President.
General chaos across the parts of Ireland that are still controlled by the British.
1798, July-October: Further risings and massacres. By October the only areas left under direct British control are the towns of Drogheda, Dundalk and Londonderry, supplied by sea.
There are now 20,000 French and 100,000 Irish troops in Ireland.
Hoche dies. Humbert assumes control of the French forces in Ireland.
1799 - 1802: The Irish consolidate the republic and seek recognition abroad. Only France and the United States of America recognise them.
1802: Treaty of Amiens. The British refuse to recognise the Irish Republic, but accept the temporary peace.
Henry Joy McCracken travels in America recruiting Ulster-Scot volunteers for the defence of Ireland. He will eventually return with 2,000 soldiers.
1803, May: War breaks out again. Limited fighting in Ireland at first.
1803, July: The Duke of York makes a major landing in Down. The British are eventually driven off after very heavy fighting. Wolfe Tone is mortally wounded in the battle.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald becomes President.
1804, March: Humbert dies. Napoleon sends 10,000 French soldiers to Ireland under his brother Lucien Bonaparte.
1804, December: Napoleon becomes Emperor of the French.