Volume: CBÉ 0265

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1. Battle of Hacketstown

   

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   Battle of Hacketstown
   Tom's recollection's of this battle are confined chiefly to incidents & he has no idea of the plan of campaign adopted by either force nor has he any idea of the number who participated. In many important details he differs from the account given by Mrs. O'Toole & by the historians & again in points where she differs from the historians of the time he would seem to bear them out though he does not read nor has he heard been read any account of the battle I am quite certain on this point for many reasons.
   The first intimation that his

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   Roman script

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   • Thomas Ellis