Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Wolfe ToneSecond Edition$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Wolfe Tone: Second Edition

Marianne Elliott

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9781846318078

Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013

DOI: 10.5949/UPO9781846317774

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM LIVERPOOL SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.liverpool.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Liverpool University Press, 2020. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in LSO for personal use.date: 30 March 2020

Trial and Death

Trial and Death

Chapter:
(p.373) Twenty-Nine Trial and Death
Source:
Wolfe Tone
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846317774.031

This chapter focuses on the trial and death of Theobald Wolfe Tone. It explains that Tone was aboard the French ship Hoche which was part of the French expedition sent to support the United Irishmen. Their arrival had been known to the English at the outset and the French fleet was easily defeated and Tone was captured. Tone was tried on November 10, 1798 and being certain that he would be condemned to death he attempted suicide. He died nine days after the suicide attempt on November 19.

Keywords:   Theobald Wolfe Tone, trial, death, French expedition, United Irishmen, suicide

Liverpool Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.