Episode 439 - The Humbert Raid
Episode 439 - The Humbert Raid  
Podcast: Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
Rating: Explicit Published On: Mon Nov 09 2026
Description: SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The French invaded Ireland to assist Irish Revolutionaries during the Rebellion of 1798. Between Napoleon not wanting to do it, several shipwrecks, a comically small army, invading after the rebellion was already largely defeated, and going on a side quest to create a French Revolutionary Proxy State, it may have been a bad idea. SOURCES: Dawson, Paul. French Invasions of Britain and Ireland. 1797–1798: The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George The Irish Rebellion of 1798. From Part II - Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 421 - 442 Revolution in Ireland 1798. https://www.leftarchive.ie/workspace/documents/14449-sp-revirl-1798-binder.pdf https://www.libraryireland.com/frenchinvasion1798/battle-ballinamuck.php https://www.jpnorth.co.uk/historical-research/ireland-in-the-1790s/general-humberts-account-of-his-expedition-to-ireland/ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/humbert%E2%80%99s-raid-ireland-1798 https://www.jpnorth.co.uk/historical-research/ireland-in-the-1790s/general-humberts-invasion/