The Colonel Pride Review
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History Video Creator, focus on Colonialism and the British Empire
Conservative US commentator Matt Walsh blasts Australia for commemorating 'Sorry Day' - as Aussies tell him: 'You're a flog' trib.al/N4vCTIU
Starting today, I am dropping weekly Youtube audiobook videos on my channel using content from my published @OldGloryClub Substack articles. My first audiobook is from my Knights of the Golden Circle article, roughly an hour and a half long, premiering today at 4 PM EST. Next week, I am going to drop the audiobook from my The Owl and The Eye article on the rise and fall of the Illuminati. Two weeks from now, I will drop my four-hour long audiobook on the Whiskey Rebellion.
Entire battles and campaigns were fought exclusively on glaciers within the Italian Alps during WWI. The photos of it are closest we will probably get to what warfare on an alien planet may look like.
“The Whole of Ireland Trembled” when Edward Bruce landed on our shores today in 1315. 300 ships spilled their human cargo onto the shores of Larne, Ulster. They carried with them 6,000 battle-hardened Scots, commanded by Edward Bruce, the younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots. And they did not come quietly. According to the Annals of Connacht, their arrival sent shockwaves through the land: “…his warlike slaughtering army caused the whole of Ireland to tremble, both Gael and Gall.” This was no mere raid. It was a full-scale invasion, carefully planned by Robert Bruce to open a second front against Edward II of England. The English crown, battered by Scottish resistance, depended on its Anglo-Irish vassals to maintain its war effort. Robert knew that if those Norman settlers could be broken, or better yet turned, the tide might swing for good. So he sent his little bro across the sea with an offer they couldn't, or shouldn't refuse. That June, Edward Bruce met with Domhnall Ó Néill the King of Tír Eóghain (Tyrone). Domhnall had already petitioned the Bruces for help against the encroaching Normans. But Robert had named his price, Edward must be recognised as High King of Ireland. The King of Tír Eóghain agreed. From there, the Scots-Irish army swept south toward Carrickfergus, taking the town with ease. The Anglo-Irish were caught lacking. The Earl of Ulster, Richard de Burgh, was away in Connacht, and the Chief Governor, Edmund Butler, was far off in Munster. By the time they reacted, it was too late. At Carrickfergus, twelve Irish kings came to Edward and bent the knee. They gave him hostages, oaths, and most significantly the ancient lordship of Ulster. According to one chronicle: “…they consented to his being proclaimed King of Ireland, and all the Gaels of Ireland agreed to grant him lordship, and they called him King of Ireland.” For the first time in centuries, the idea of a High King of all Ireland, not a puppet of foreign power, but a warrior-king backed by native and foreign swords alike was upon the land. The following year, Edward was formally inaugurated as King of Ireland, the last man to ever hold that title. But glory fades. Soon famine stalked the land, and fresh wars ground down alliances as quickly as they formed. In October 1318, Edward Bruce was killed at the Battle of Faughart, near Dundalk. His dream of unification died with him. His Scottish army was routed by a combined Hiberno-Norman force under John de Bermingham and Edmund Butler, that same governor who had missed his landing three years earlier. The temporary High King Edward's head, sans crown, was sent to Edward II in triumph. The Anglo-Normans once again wrested control of our turbulent island. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…
