At first these included the descendants of Irish Protestant refugees from the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
After seeing active service during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, he fought as a troop commander in many of the battles of the Peninsular War and the Hundred Days.
Massacres of loyalist prisoners took place at the Vinegar Hill camp and on Wexford bridge.
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20,000 troops eventually poured into Wexford and inflicted defeat at the Battle of Vinegar Hill on 21 June.
He served in all the regiment's engagements under his father's command during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
During the rebellion in that year he was detached with three thousand men to occupy New Ross, and defeated the rebels when they attacked the place on 5 June 1798.
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In the early 19th century, Irish-Australian immigrants referred to the area as Vinegar Hill, after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, an engagement during the 1798 uprising of the United Irishmen in south-east Ireland.
Born Carlo Bianconi, Costa Masnaga (Italy) on September 24, 1786, he moved from an area poised to fall to Napoleon and travelled to Ireland in 1802, via England, just four years after the 1798 rebellion.
Two of the Wexford leaders, Colonel Anthony Perry and Father Mogue Kearns were captured here and were later hanged at Edenderry for their part in the 1798 Rebellion.
Dwyer McAllister's cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.
He was lieutenant-colonel of the South Devon militia, and in that capacity accompanied his regiment to Ireland during the Irish rebellion, 1798-9.
Battle of Tara Hill, between British forces and Irish rebels involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Bartholomew Teeling (1774 – 1798), a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798