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Jun 9, 2011 · A barnstorming cross-country speaking tour, an attempt to sell the Senate on the treaty by selling the public, possibly brought on the stroke that crippled and eventually killed him, and left the country rudderless for the crucial 15 months remaining in his term. Wilson departed the White House a diminished and discredited leader.
- 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...
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Feb 3, 2024 · Wilson effectively killed his own baby, prompting many close observers to wonder whether he had gone mad. Some attributed Wilson’s fatal stubbornness to a stroke he suffered in the fall of 1919 that left the left side of his body permanently paralyzed.
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Mar 2, 2010 · Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, dies in Washington, D.C., at the age of 67. In 1912, Governor Wilson of New Jersey was elected president in a landslide Democratic victory...
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Mar 20, 2024 · The killing of British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irish-born unionist, in June 1922 sparked the Irish Civil War - and was likely ordered by Michael Collins.
May 28, 2022 · Wilson’s death sparked the Irish Civil War (though likely another spark would have been found if not this one) and led to great loss for the families of the victim and the assassins.
