About: William Tate (soldier)     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatPeopleOfTheFrenchRevolutionaryWars, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FWilliam_Tate_%28soldier%29&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Chef de brigade William Tate was the Irish-born American commander of a French invasion force known as La Légion Noire ("The Black Legion") which invaded Britain in 1797, resulting in the Battle of Fishguard. Tate reportedly held a grudge against the British because his family had been killed by pro-British Native Americans in the American War of Independence, and he advocated Irish republicanism. Many historians, following E. H. Stuart Jones, the author of The Last Invasion of Britain (1950), have suggested that William Tate was about 70 years old in 1797; he was in fact 44.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • William Tate (fr)
  • William Tate (soldier) (en)
rdfs:comment
  • William Tate est un colonel et un aventurier américain au service de la France qui, le 22 février 1797 (bataille de Fishguard), avec quatre navires et une bande de mercenaires et de patriotes déserteurs (la Légion noire), composés de Français, d'Espagnols et d’Irlandais, débarquèrent sur les côtes anglaises au large de la pointe de près de , hameau de l’ouest du pays de Galles, proche de la ville de Fishguard, pour envahir la Grande-Bretagne. (fr)
  • Chef de brigade William Tate was the Irish-born American commander of a French invasion force known as La Légion Noire ("The Black Legion") which invaded Britain in 1797, resulting in the Battle of Fishguard. Tate reportedly held a grudge against the British because his family had been killed by pro-British Native Americans in the American War of Independence, and he advocated Irish republicanism. Many historians, following E. H. Stuart Jones, the author of The Last Invasion of Britain (1950), have suggested that William Tate was about 70 years old in 1797; he was in fact 44. (en)
foaf:name
  • William Tate (en)
name
  • William Tate (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Goodwick_sands.jpeg
death place
  • Unknown (en)
birth place
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
serviceyears
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
battles
  • French Revolutionary Wars *Battle of Fishguard (en)
birth date
branch
  • French Army (en)
caption
  • The Battle of Fishguard, where Tate surrendered (en)
death date
  • Unknown (en)
image size
rank
has abstract
  • William Tate est un colonel et un aventurier américain au service de la France qui, le 22 février 1797 (bataille de Fishguard), avec quatre navires et une bande de mercenaires et de patriotes déserteurs (la Légion noire), composés de Français, d'Espagnols et d’Irlandais, débarquèrent sur les côtes anglaises au large de la pointe de près de , hameau de l’ouest du pays de Galles, proche de la ville de Fishguard, pour envahir la Grande-Bretagne. (fr)
  • Chef de brigade William Tate was the Irish-born American commander of a French invasion force known as La Légion Noire ("The Black Legion") which invaded Britain in 1797, resulting in the Battle of Fishguard. In 1793, French Consul Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit wanted to capture Florida from Spain. He commissioned William Tate as a French Colonel to raise and lead a force of Americans. Tate was instructed to recruit from outside the United States, but he recruited from the region of the Carolinas, especially rural settlers. In February 1794, Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet, arrived in Philadelphia as the new French ambassador, and rescinded Tate's commission. South Carolina threatened to arrest Tate for treason, and he fled to France in 1795, where he was given command of the Légion Noire during the 1797 invasion of Britain. The 1,200 to 1,400-strong Légion Noire landed at Carregwastad Point, near the Welsh port of Fishguard, on February 22 but surrendered three days later at the Battle of Fishguard. After brief imprisonment, Tate was returned to France in a prisoner exchange in 1798, along with most of his invasion force. This was the last invasion of the British mainland by foreign forces. Tate reportedly held a grudge against the British because his family had been killed by pro-British Native Americans in the American War of Independence, and he advocated Irish republicanism. Many historians, following E. H. Stuart Jones, the author of The Last Invasion of Britain (1950), have suggested that William Tate was about 70 years old in 1797; he was in fact 44. (en)
commands
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 58 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software