Excerpt from The Croppy, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of 1798 The name adopted by the conspirators was that of United Irishmen; but as this name was inherited by them, the necessary task of ex plaining its nature and import cannot be ao complished without tracing it from its source. In 1777, Britain was engaged in the war with her Colonies. France, entering into alli ance with America, had sent the soldiers of her despotic monarchy to fight for republicanism. England, in want of troops, withdrew her gar risons from Ireland, in order to transport them over the Atlantic. Ireland then remained without an army to protect her against a threatened French invasion. She demanded succour from England, and understood that she must defend herself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.