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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/

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Once upon a time, during WWII, an artillery-spotting pilot looked at his tiny Piper Cub and wondered, "What if I strapped a bunch of rocket launchers to it?"

SOURCES:

Busha, James. Carpenter, Carol. Bazooka Charlie: The Unbelievable Story of Major Charles Carpenter and Rosie the Rocketer

What's New in Aviation: Piper Cub Tank Buster, Popular Science, Vol. 146 No. 2

Gallagher, Wes, Major Charles Carpenter, Once History Teacher, Now Legend in Patton's Army, The Rock Island Argus, 26 September 1944

"Bazooka Charles Goes After Nazis". Lawrence Journal-World. Associated Press. 1944-10-03

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/bazooka-charlie-the-audacious-pilot-who-took-on-german-tanks.html

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Palace coups, scheming brothers, the British, and a guy faking illness to get out of exile all converge in an imperial war of conquest.

SOURCES:

Tarapot, Phanjoubam (2003), Bleeding Manipur

Majumdar, R. C. (1960), "Rebellion in Manipur, 1891"

Majumdar, R. C. (2002), British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance, Part I

Yumkhaibam Shyam Singh. 1891 Anglo-Manipuri War And Rarely Known Manipuri Heroes. Journal of Positive School Psychology. History Department Imphal College.

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