Battle of Vinegar Hill
| Battle of Vinegar Hill | |||||||
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| Part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 | |||||||
"Defeat at Vinegar Hill" by George Cruikshank (1845) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Great Britain Ireland | United Irishmen | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Gerard Lake Francis Needham Henry Johnson James Duff David Dundas |
Anthony Perry John Murphy Myles Byrne Mogue Kearns | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ~13,000 | ~16,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| ~100 killed and wounded | ~1,200 killed | ||||||
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The Battle of Vinegar Hill (Irish: Cath Chnoc Fhíodh na gCaor) was a military engagement during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 21 June 1798 between a force of approximately 13,000 government troops under the command of Gerard Lake and 16,000 United Irishmen rebels led by Anthony Perry. The battle, a major rebel defeat, took place on 21 June 1798 on a large rebel camp on Vinegar Hill and in the streets of Enniscorthy, County Wexford and marked the last major attempt by the rebels to hold and control territory taken in Wexford.