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An IRA ambush at Ashtown,...

history · 19 December 1919 · 105 years ago

An IRA ambush at Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland failed in its attempt to assassinate the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Sir John French. After a brief gunfight the police escort fought off the attack. 

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