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The Redshanks: Highland Swords in the Service of Gaelic Ireland
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- ISBN8233272547
- EAN9798233272547
- Date de parution15/07/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
The Redshanks: Highland Swords in the Service of Gaelic Ireland They called them Redshanks for the weathered skin left bare by a life spent in wool plaids and Irish bogs, and for a century they were among the most feared soldiers in the British Isles. Drawn from the collapsed Lordship of the Isles and a Highland economy that could no longer support its own sons, these Hebridean mercenaries crossed the North Channel each , and in doing so held back the Tudor conquest of Ireland for a hundred years after the rest of the island had fallen.
This is their story: the wages and dead pays that made a captain rich, the arquebus and broadsword tactics that broke two English armies in a single year, and the extraordinary women, Agnes Campbell, Iníon Dubh, who turned marriage and kinship into instruments of war. It follows the Redshanks from the succession crisis that forged Red Hugh O'Donnell to the catastrophe at Kinsale, the legislation that finally silenced the trade, and its last, doomed revival outside the walls of Derry.
A vanished century, rebuilt in full, for readers of Simon Schama and Anthony Beevor who want their history to hit like a charge.
This is their story: the wages and dead pays that made a captain rich, the arquebus and broadsword tactics that broke two English armies in a single year, and the extraordinary women, Agnes Campbell, Iníon Dubh, who turned marriage and kinship into instruments of war. It follows the Redshanks from the succession crisis that forged Red Hugh O'Donnell to the catastrophe at Kinsale, the legislation that finally silenced the trade, and its last, doomed revival outside the walls of Derry.
A vanished century, rebuilt in full, for readers of Simon Schama and Anthony Beevor who want their history to hit like a charge.