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- Henry Wilson (born Feb. 16, 1812, Farmington, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 22, 1875, Washington, D.C.) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement.
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
- The Assassination
- Who Was Henry Wilson?
- A Fraught Context
- Who Ordered The Killing?
- The Fallout
- References
On June 22, 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson arrived back, by taxi, at his home on Eaton Square London. The 58 year old had been at the unveiling of a war memorial to the fallen of the Great War at Liverpool Street station. Unknown to him he had been followed home by two Irish veterans of that war, Joe O’Sullivan and Reggie Dunne, the former ha...
Henry Wilson was a hate figure for Irish Republicans. He was at the time of his death in 1922, a field marshal of the British Army, the highest rank that one could attain in that force, in which he had served since 1881, though wars in Burma, South Africa and the Great War in 1914-18. Born into a Protestant, landowning Irish family with extensive l...
The killing of Wilson was a decisive factor, as we shall see, in the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. As a result, who ordered the shooting and why remains a source of great controversy to this day. It occurred at a particularly sensitive time, when the IRA had split into antagonistic factions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The pro-Treaty faction org...
There were thus reasonable suspicions on at least three groups for the killing of Henry Wilson; Michael Collins and pro-Treaty forces, the Four Courts garrison of the anti-Treaty IRA or possibly the London battalion of the IRA acting independently. Ordering the killing would fit with Collins’ aggressive posture on the North from early 1922 onwards,...
Whatever the truth is, for the British government, who, not unnaturally, given that the Four Courts garrison were making loud noises about declaring war on them, assumed the anti-Treaty IRA were responsible, the assassination was the last straw. On June 22nd the same day as the assassination of Wilson, a letter arrived in Dublin, addressed to Colli...
For an account of the assassination see Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green, the Irish Civil War, p112 Charles Townshend, , The Republic, the Fight for Irish Independence, pp.150, 142 Charles Townshend, The Republic, the Fight for Irish Independence, p.139 Michael Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence, p.184 Dorothy Macardle, The Irish Republ...
Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement.
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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873.
Jun 22, 2022 · Sir Henry Wilson reached the rank of field marshal in the British Army. He was elected MP for North Down in February 1922. Four months later, he was killed by Irish Republican Army...
May 14, 2022 · He then introduced his good friend and the principal guest, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, to unveil the memorial. Wilson was 58, an Ulster Unionist MP and a former career soldier.
Mar 20, 2024 · On June 22, 1922, British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, considered a great hero of World War One who helped bring that battle to an end, unveiled a memorial at Liverpool Street station in...
