It seemed as if.-Providence had mysteriously used the victims. of. Britains .cruelty to Ireland. the men whom her persecution had banished from the bosom of their own land. as the means of her final punishmentand humiliation on a foreign. soil.. As the Irish Brigade struck: down the British power at Landen and Pontenoy. so did the. refugee Irish in the ranks of the American patriot army contribute th pluck from the haughty brow of Britain the palm of empire. This same sentiment is voiced tersely in the. British Lord Mountjoys admission. "America was lost by Irish emigrants. These utterances but echo the .angry- outburst. of. George .1I. after the Battleof Fontenoy. ."Cursed be the lawsthat.deprived me of such subjects." .
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