Born at Coolrain, County Laois, in 1751, Ned Despard followed the typical path of a gentry son when he joined the British Army as a young man. During the American War of Independence, he fought in modern-day Nicaragua, a lesser known theatre of the war, where he saved the life of a young Horatio Nelson. […]
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