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22. Juni 2020 · Henry Wilson was the most senior British military or political figure to die during the Irish revolution and his death inadvertently triggered the outbreak of the Irish Civil War just six days later. Who was Henry Wilson? Henry Wilson was a hate figure for Irish Republicans.
A Brief BIOGRAPHY. Henry Wilson was an American general, senator, and later vice president who played a key role in the political lead up to the Civil War, handling military affairs during the war, and fighting for civil rights for all Americans during Reconstruction.
Wilson successfully authored bills that outlawed slavery in Washington, D.C., and incorporated African Americans in the Union Civil War effort in 1862. After the Civil War, he supported the Radical Republican program for Reconstruction .
16. Apr. 2024 · Elected to the United States Senate (1855–73) originally as a member of the Know-Nothing Party, he served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs during the American Civil War (1861–65) and opposed President Andrew Johnson’s postwar policy of accommodation toward the defeated South.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2. Juli 2012 · First a retired British general, Henry Wilson, was shot dead in London by two IRA members, who were later hanged. It has never been proved who ordered the killing but the anti-Treaty IRA certainly had nothing to do with it and it may even have been ordered by Collins himself in revenge for Wilson’s role as military advisor in Northern Ireland.
28. Mai 2022 · Great Hatred: the Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP—Compelling history Book review: Ronan McGreevy’s fast-paced telling explores all sides of killing that sparked Civil War
26. Mai 2022 · The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson on the doorstep of his home in London in 1922 was the trigger event for the Irish Civil War, according to the author of a new...
