Patrick Sarsfield - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T12:43:02Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topics/patrick-sarsfield?commentId=6442157%3AComment%3A235906&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAddress: Rue du Mont St Marti…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-10-10:6442157:Comment:2358772018-10-10T00:53:17.704ZNollaig 2016https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BelindaEvangelista
<div class="mod" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><div class="Z1hOCe"><div class="zloOqf kno-fb-ctx">Address: Rue du Mont St Martin 64, 4000 Liège, Belgium<br></br>Phone: +32 4 223 68 16</div>
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<div class="zloOqf kno-fb-ctx">FYI Tony…</div>
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<div class="mod" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><div class="Z1hOCe"><div class="zloOqf kno-fb-ctx">Address: Rue du Mont St Martin 64, 4000 Liège, Belgium<br/>Phone: +32 4 223 68 16</div>
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<div class="zloOqf kno-fb-ctx">FYI Tony</div>
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</div> Thank you Nollaig for your re…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-10-09:6442157:Comment:2359062018-10-09T15:27:53.007ZTony O’Sullivanhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TonyOSullivan
<p>Thank you Nollaig for your reply and help. I consider it a shame that the grave of our national hero Patrick Sarsfield remains unknown. Patrick Sarsfield was perhaps a link between old Ireland and modern day Ireland. He was the inspiration for the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy, which itself was the inspiration for the Irish Brigade at Mary's Height, Antietam and Gettysburg. T. N. Fewer wrote an article in the May 1986 edition of An Cosantoir magazine (magazine for Irish Defense Forces) on…</p>
<p>Thank you Nollaig for your reply and help. I consider it a shame that the grave of our national hero Patrick Sarsfield remains unknown. Patrick Sarsfield was perhaps a link between old Ireland and modern day Ireland. He was the inspiration for the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy, which itself was the inspiration for the Irish Brigade at Mary's Height, Antietam and Gettysburg. T. N. Fewer wrote an article in the May 1986 edition of An Cosantoir magazine (magazine for Irish Defense Forces) on Sarsfield's death. He undertook some research in Huy and discovered in the parish register of St. Martin records of two unnamed French officers buried in Huy on the 8th and 12th August 1693. He did not indicate that he found graves to match the register. However he strongly suggests that one of these French officers may have been Patrick Sarsfield. I also came across an article under the name of A.Colthirst (who I believe resides in California) which states that there was a <em>'strange practice in France, at least, of leasing graves. It is highly probable that his remains were taken up after the grave lease had expired, and re-interred in the"Fosse Commune", or common pit, there being no one to renew the lease - gravestones were also removed on such occasions'.</em> I hope that this is not the case. I also attach a photo of Huy.<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1220742591?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1220742591?profile=original" width="640" class="align-full"/></a></p> He was carried from the field…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-10-08:6442157:Comment:2357652018-10-08T11:11:09.662ZNollaig 2016https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BelindaEvangelista
<p><span>He was carried from </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">the<span> </span></span><span>field to </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">the<span> </span></span><span>village </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">of<span> </span></span><span>Huy, where he died </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">in a<span> </span></span><span>few days, </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">of the<span> </span></span><span>fever induced by his wound. He was, no doubt, buried there, but no stone marks his grave. …</span></p>
<p><span>He was carried from </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">the<span> </span></span><span>field to </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">the<span> </span></span><span>village </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">of<span> </span></span><span>Huy, where he died </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">in a<span> </span></span><span>few days, </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">of the<span> </span></span><span>fever induced by his wound. He was, no doubt, buried there, but no stone marks his grave. <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0NkJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=0NkJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA202#v=onepa...</a></span></p>
<p>A search for the grave in 1889 <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115378601?searchTerm=sarsfield%20huy%20belgium%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=" target="_blank">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115378601?searchTerm=sarsfield%20huy%20belgium%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=</a></p>