1. Myles Byrne was an insurgent leader in Wexford in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and a fighter in the continued guerrilla struggle against British Crown forces in the Wicklow Hills until 1802.
12 Facts About Myles Byrne
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At the age of 17 Byrne was asked to join the government Yeomanry.
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Myles Byrne choose instead to join the Society of United Irish.
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The rising, for which Myles Byrne turned out with Emmet and Malachy Delaney in gold-trimmed green uniforms, was broken up after a brief confrontation in Thomas Street.
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Two days after the fight in Thomas Street, Myles Byrne met with the fugitive Emmet and agreed to go to Paris to procure French assistance.
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Myles Byrne was commissioned as a captain in Napoleon's Irish Legion.
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Rather than in Ireland, with his diminishing Irish contingent, Myles Byrne was to see action in the Low Countries, Germany and Spain.
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Myles Byrne rose to the rank of brigadier general and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1813.
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For much of the next decade, Myles Byrne found himself effectively retired on half pay.
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Myles Byrne retired in 1835 with the rank of Chef de Bataillion.
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Myles Byrne was married in Paris to a Scots Presbyterian, Frances Charles Horner, but they had no children.
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Miles Myles Byrne died at his house in the rue Montaigne, Paris on Friday 24 January 1862, and was buried in Montmartre Cemetery.