On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and historical interpreter Jack Campbell on the Marquis de Lafayette’s fascinating attempt to garner support for an invasion of Ireland in order to bring the American Revolution to European soil.
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I seriously doubt, that there was a plan to attack Ireland. When the financier of the American Revolution was Irish.
Here is the link to the article detailing that, yes, Lafayette did come up with a plan to invade Ireland. An invasion did not happen, but the plan was in fact discussed greatly, as detailed by the letters written by Lafayette and cited in the article. https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/07/the-scheme-of-my-heart-lafayettes-plan-to-invade-ireland/