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This is my first TL here, so go easy on me. Basically, the French invasion of Ireland in 1798 succeeds. Ireland is freed, and things change from there.

Triumph of Ballinamuck

The victory at the previous battle of Castlebar had caused thousands of Irish patriots to flood to the revolutionary cause. Lord Cornwallis had an army of 26000, but their supply trains were continually harried by Franco-Irish guerrillas who stopped Cornwallis from making meaningful progress through the country. As well as this, more French reinforcements had arrived in the newly liberated province of Connaught.

Elsewhere, in Longford and Westmeath, another group of rebels began an insurgency and successfully repulsed an attacking British force. General
Humbert soon marched west, to bring these rebels into the fold.

It was while on the way to Westmeath, that the Franco-Irish and British armies clashed at Ballinamuck. Of roughly 5000 men on each side, the battle was close-run, but the expertise of the French soldiers was met by the ferocity of the Irishmen, and it ended in a decisive victory for the fledgling Irish Republic.
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