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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letter from North Ireland dated August 23, 1797, reports Lord Blaney commanding 1000 troops at Fintona, burning 10-20 houses daily, preventing property salvage, rounding up and imprisoning locals on suspicion lists in Armagh jail, with fears of total country devastation.
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Lord Blaney, at the head of 1000 troops, has pitched his camp at Fintona; he burns from ten to twenty houses every day, and so bent on the total destruction of the poor unfortunate people who may have incurred his displeasure, that he does not even suffer them to rescue their property from the devouring flames. The manner in which he proceeds in taking prisoners is by scouring the country with his dogs of war, for four or five miles round, driving the miserable people before him to any plain which his lordship thinks proper: he then takes out his list of informations, and swears every man to his name, such whose names he has on his list he lodges in the goal of Armagh. In short, there is nothing expected by the people here but that he will lay the whole country waste. In my next I shall give you a more particular account of the sufferings of the people in this part of the country.
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North Of Ireland
Event Date
August 23, 1797
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burning of 10-20 houses daily; imprisonment of suspects in armagh goal; expected total devastation of the country
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Lord Blaney camps at Fintona with 1000 troops, destroys houses of disfavored people without allowing property rescue, rounds up locals using military force over miles, identifies and jails those on his list in Armagh, aiming for total destruction amid local unrest.