Ensign ewart captured the french ensign at the battle of waterloo.

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    Battle of Waterloo, when British forces, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, a Dubliner, defeat Napoleon’s forces. The Iron Duke wasn’t the only Irish presence on the day — Napoleon’s horse Marengo was reared in Co. Wexford, and the Duke of Welli

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    Flora MacDonald met Prince Charles Edward Stuart and persuaded him to wear womens clothes as part of the escape plan from the Outer Hebrides to Skye.

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    Pacification of Berwick. Charles I of England forced to withdraw from Scotland and to recognize an independent Scottish Parliament

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