Gerard Lake Quotes
Nothing but terror will keep them in order. It is plain every act of sedition originates in this town.
The Roman Catholic Defender Organization had about 300 thousand volunteers, and Belfast was the central location of the Defender leaders.
Gerard Lake, 1744–1808, 1st Viscount Lake British General Commanding Troops in Ireland during the threatened French invasion and Irish Roman Catholic rebellion at the end of the 18th century, Statement from his headquarters in Belfast, 1797
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The reference to “hanging the Irish” referred to the attempted French invasion of Ireland with Irish Roman Catholic complicity. The English went on a campaign of terror {639231} and there were many hangings such as {639272}.
With martial law came the authority to seize ALL guns in the colony for the emergency. This was not to disarm the general populace. It reflected the fact that there were relatively few colonists who owned guns as they were very expensive. The Governor could take those that existed and use them to defend against the rebels or whatever. There were more gun owners in the Revolution but still a minority. Even after the War of 1812 only 30% of Americans were armed, and that shortly decreased to 10% as there was no real culture of gun ownership in early America. This would come around the Civil War.
China, after overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty was struggling among many factions for control of the government.
- Born: July 27, 1744
- Died: February 20, 1808
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Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the military in British India.
