"A sore election: the 12th Lancers in Dungarvan, 1866" Topic
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Tango01 | 11 Sep 2022 9:07 p.m. PST |
"Violence was common during nineteenth-century Irish elections, with rival party factions obstructing voters by fair means or foul. As a result, polling day acquired a ‘military character', with infantry and cavalry assisting the constabulary in escorting voters and controlling crowds. 1 Using the military as police was risky; sometimes heavily armed men responded to civilian taunts and harassment with lethal force. On 28 December 1866, a hot-headed, unauthorised cavalry charge by the 12th Lancers in Dungarvan left two women widowed and 11 children half-orphans. Yet there were many soldiers on election duty that weekend tramping across the countryside to escort voters from crossroads to polling places. Why did the 12th Lancers break ranks and earn the epithet ‘the Butcher Lancers'?…"
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42flanker | 12 Sep 2022 3:22 a.m. PST |
Unsurprisingly, from the accounts quoted it seems that at least some of the soldiers involved may have been Irish themselves. |
Tango01 | 12 Sep 2022 3:26 p.m. PST |
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