Battle of Prosperous

1798 CE.

Shown on the map at 53.288°, -6.756°.

The Battle of Prosperous was a military engagement between British Crown forces and United Irishmen rebels on 24 May 1798, during that year's Irish Rebellion, in the town of Prosperous, County Kildare. Prosperous was founded by Sir Robert Brooke in 1780 as a village for processing cotton produced in the Americas.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Prosperous, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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