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A Kingdom Lost, A Title Won: The Wild Geese of the House of O'Kelly
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- ISBN8235514768
- EAN9798235514768
- Date de parution04/07/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
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A Kingdom Lost, A Title Won: The Wild Geese of the House of O'Kelly In 1691, on a stretch of Galway bog that had belonged to his family for a thousand years, the O'Kelly lordship of Uí Maine was cut down in a single catastrophic afternoon. From that ruin, Wilhelm O'Kelly was born a generation later into a homeland where Penal Law had made his family's ancient dignity impossible to reclaim. He left for Vienna in 1722 with nothing but a name and an uncle's foothold at the Habsburg court, and built, through four decades of relentless service, one of the most remarkable careers in eighteenth-century European warfare.
He bled at Breslau and refused to leave the field. He held the line at Torgau against Frederick the Great's finest general while his own army broke around him. He rose to Feldzeugmeister, the second-highest rank in the Imperial-Royal army, and died a count of the Holy Roman Empire, a title his family carried home to Galway, where their descendants live still. This is a story of dispossession answered not with bitterness but with discipline: of a dynasty that lost everything on its own ancestral ground and rebuilt itself, battle by battle, on foreign soil, until it could return.
A sweeping, unflinching account of exile, war, and the long road back.
He bled at Breslau and refused to leave the field. He held the line at Torgau against Frederick the Great's finest general while his own army broke around him. He rose to Feldzeugmeister, the second-highest rank in the Imperial-Royal army, and died a count of the Holy Roman Empire, a title his family carried home to Galway, where their descendants live still. This is a story of dispossession answered not with bitterness but with discipline: of a dynasty that lost everything on its own ancestral ground and rebuilt itself, battle by battle, on foreign soil, until it could return.
A sweeping, unflinching account of exile, war, and the long road back.
