Talk:Battle of Ballinamuck

Battle of Ballinamuck
Sorry, my first edit was not intended to be minor. I've been doing minor edits for several hours and clicked minor without thinking.--File Éireann 21:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Surrender at discretion
Currently the article says:
 * The Irish fought on, not having the option of surrender.

Having presumably been given the option to surrender with the French then given I would have thought surrender at discretion and no quarter came into play under the laws of war as they were at the time. Perhaps someone who has access to a source about the the battle could expand that sentence. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 12:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * All very reminiscent of the War in the Vendée from 1793.86.42.217.228 (talk) 14:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Numbers
How did 5,000 Irish recruits shrink to 1,000 within a couple of weeks? Could someone check the real numbers?86.42.195.76 (talk) 11:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

run on sentence makes for unclarity
This massive run-on sentence is very far from clear: Members of the French-inspired Republic of Connacht such as George Blake were hunted down and hanged with many other suspected insurgents including Father Andrew Conroy, who led French and Irish forces to Castlebar through the Windy Gap, a passage through the Mountains This could be taken to mean that Conroy was hanged along with Blake, or that Conroy was hunted (as Blake was), but that Conroy successfully fled through Windy Gap. Either way it should be two sentences. I'd fix it, but there's no reference for me to go on. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 18:07, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Dead links & insufficient sources for 'Aftermath' paragraph
"Ballinamuck Visitor Centre". Longford Tourism. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2017. Ballinamuck -Things to Do & See: Battlefield Centre - 1798 Hall, archived from the original on 18 November 2007

The first source is a dead link. The second makes only passing reference to the events described in the paragraph. A more substantial source is required for reprisals after the battle. JF42 (talk) 11:10, 8 December 2022 (UTC)