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Battle of the Big Cross
The Battle of the Big Cross was an engagement of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 fought between the forces of the United Irishmen and a column of British troops. It was fought on the 19th of June on a spot on the Shannonvale-Ballinascarty road known locally as the big cross, about 4 miles east of Clonakilty in West Cork. It was the only battle fought in the rebellion in Cork or indeed the whole of Munster.
==Prelude events in West Cork==
The attempted landing of a French invasion fleet in Bantry Bay in late 1796 shook the British establishment. In response, British troops were garrisoned all over West Cork. In early 1798, Major General Sir John Moore was given command of the 3,000 British troops in West Cork.
A proclamation was issued that all weaponry (firearms and pikes) be handed up to either the military of local magistrates by the 2nd of May under an amnesty. Despite this, Moore issued orders for his troops to treat the locals as harsh as possible and to take any provisions they needed for three weeks. In May, British troops scoured West Cork searching for arms burning homes and generally terrorizing the common people. Moore himself wrote the moment a single redcoat appears, everyone flees. The official disarming of West Cork was completed by the 23rd of May. Moore and his troops had found 800 pikes and 3,400 firearms, and large numbers of suspected United Irishmen were arrested.
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