Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-01-21
Long List Who Have Achieved
Distinction in Peace and
I'm War.
Sir Robert Hart, of Pekin, lis
Claimed to Be the Most
Powerful.
INTERESTING HISTORICAL SKETCHES

the Jews have alike made homes and
careers in alien lands. The marked
divergence in those careers has been en-
phasized by the war between the United
States and Spain. An incidental effect OF
that war was the abandonment of the
project that one hundred thousand rep
resentative Instantaneous revisit their
native land in honor of the anniversary
of '9s. This would have vacated tenn
porarily most of the executive offices
in many American cities. But that would
have been only an incident. The war,
to the student of history, discloses the
remarkable fact that never before in the
history of the world have so many and
so important posts of honor and infiu-
ence been filled by men of Irish birth
and descent, not only in Spain, but in
Austria, her natural ally, in Russia, in
France. in Great Britain and the United
States, says John Paul Bocock in the
Cosmopolitan.
During the period when an Anglo
American alliance has been discussed by
the statesmen of Europe as at least a
possibility, and has been cordially con-
sidered by leaders of opinion among
Euglish-speaking people, it was actually
true that, were Queen Victoria's Irish
born generals, admirals, colonial gov
ernors and diplomats disposed all at
once to rebel, they could, for the time
being, come very near converting the
British into an Irish empire.
Furthermore, it was true that a lineal
descendant of one of "the martyrs of
,9s" was President of the United States,
and that the municipal government OF
most large American cities was con-
trolled in the main by Irish born Amer
leans or their sons.
One hundred years of what many
Irishmen deem England's oppressive
rule have Just elapsed. To many Irish
Americans, to most of them, indeed, the
suggestion of an alliance between the
United States and Great Britain is alb
horreut. Yet never since the days of the
Duke Of w. lion has the 6h mil
itary establishment been sok1keonspicu-
ousiv Milesian in its commanders as
now.
Gen. Lord Wolseley and Gen. Lord
Roberts, the Great British generals OF
TODAY. were born in the county of Dublin
and the county of Waterrold, respect
ively. Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, who
was made a viscount in 1888, about the
time he had that terrible fall from
camels back going up the Nile toward
Khartoum, was born June A, 1888, in
Coldenbridge House, county OF Dublin.
"Bobs," as Kiplin's Tommy Atkinses
call Baron Roberts, of Candahar, in At
ghanistan and the county of Waterford
in Ireland, is now commander-in-chief
If the forces in Ireland, and is one year
older than his commander, Lord Wolse-
lev. While yet Sir Frederick Sleigh
Roberts he had already become the idol
of the soldiers in India. But the list that
didn't even start with Wellington, who
was born in Dublin, April IL, 1869, but
which already includes his most eminent
successors, is only begun. Readers OF
the war news from the Indian frontier
all through the late rebellion OF the
Afridis and the Mohmunds have become
familir with the name of Col. Sir Bindon
BLOOD. K. c. B., who seems to have had
general charge of the British forces.
This gallant officer is a son OF
William Bindon Blood, Esq, of the
County Clare. His laurels were won
long ago, for he was chief staff officer OH
the Chitral relief force. He is now the
head of the royal engineering military
works department in India.
No wonder there are Mulvaneys .
plenty under the leadership OF Roberts
and Blood. The army roster will fill out
the record almost at will. Gen. Sir John
Doran, K. c. B., famous throughout two
decades of Hindoostane wars. comes
from Ely House, in the County OF Wex'
ford. The gallant Sir Hugh Henry
Cough, whose Indian career is long
series of wounds and decorations, is a
son of George Cough, OF Rathronor
House, in Tipperary. Sir Henrv's serv'
ices in the time of the Mutiny. his gal
liant conduct at the relief Of Lucknow
and on many another bloody field, blaze
red trail of glory into the British wal
Office. Scarcely less distinguished al
Cawnpore and Lucknow was Gen. Sii
Richard Dennis Kelly, X. c. B., who
comes from Weston, in the County o.
Meath. To sum up for India and Ire
land. the official commander-in-chief O
the forces in India, since 1893. has beer
Lieut.. Gen. Sir George Stuart White
&c. B., known all over the peninsula
for long and gallant services. He ap
pears ON the record as "son OF jane
Robert White, Esq, OF Whitehall Count,
of Antrim" Sir Robert Kitchener
Lord Kitchener. of Khartoum, the mos
popular soldier in Great britain today
the man who has avenged "chinese'
Cordon's atrocious death and redeemed
Hicks Pasha's bloody defeat, is NATIVE
of Ireland.
With these Irishmen in command o
the British forces in India, in England
in Ireland and in Egypt, the satiriea
III e. ~. 81 ,uericau army TO free Ire