Which anti-Irish rebellion tactics?
Ireland hasn't been the most peaceful of places throughout its history, wars rarely followed the same format. I'm unfamiliar with any standard tactics that lasted the centuries.
I am thinking of things like:
Desmond Rebellions (1569-73 and 1579-83), Nine Years War (1594-1603) Rebellion of 1641 , Cromwell in Ireland in 1649–1653 , William of Orange and the Battle of the Boyne (1690), Irish Rebellion of 1798 , all the way up to the Easter Uprising (1916) and the War of Independance (1922).
I would say the tactics remained fairly constant in the 350 years between the Earl of Desmond and Michael Collins.
This from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
"The aftermath of almost every British victory in the rising was marked by the massacre of captured and wounded rebels with some on a large scale such as at Carlow, New Ross, Ballinamuck and Killala.[12] The British were responsible for particularly gruesome massacres at Gibbet Rath, New Ross and Enniscorthy, burning rebels alive in the latter two.[13] For those rebels who were taken alive in the aftermath of battle, being regarded as traitors to the Crown, they were not treated as prisoners of war but were executed, usually by hanging.
In addition non-combatant civilians were murdered by the military, who also carried out many instances of rape, particularly in County Wexford.[14][15] Many individual instances of murder were also unofficially carried out by aggressive local Irish Yeomanry militia units before, during and after the rebellion as their local knowledge led them to attack suspected rebels. "Pardoned" rebels were a particular target.[16]
Rebel
Massacres of loyalist prisoners took place at the Vinegar Hill camp and in Wexford. After the defeat of a rebel attack at New Ross, between 100[17] and 200 prisoners [18] were killed, some by gunshot but the majority were burned alive at Scullabogue when the barn in which they were being held captive was set alight. In Wexford town, on June 20th some 70 loyalist prisoners were marched to the bridge (according to historian James Lydon, first stripped naked[18]) and piked to death."
Lets assume then that several high profile massacres hid followed early British victories. Would Washington have been able to keep his army alloof until it was needed? Would Congress still have funded it? Would the US army have sesponded in the same way the Irish rebels did?
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