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Sir John O'Sullivan, aka John William O'Sullivan, (1700〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/as/jacobites/std/?p=factip7〕 - c.1760) was an Irish soldier in the service of France. He was born in County Kerry in 1700 and educated in Paris and Rome, being intended for the priesthood. He returned to Ireland upon the sudden death of his father and, being unable to retain his parental estates due to the Penal Laws, he chose to forfeit them and made his way back to France where he joined the army eventually rising to the rank of colonel. ==Early career== According to ''A Compendium of Irish Biography'', "He ... rose rapidly, and was coadjutor of Maillebois in the atrocious suppression of liberty in Corsica in 1739. There and on the Rhine he earned the reputation of an able captain in guerrilla warfare." () However, by the time of the Battle of Culloden it was said of O'Sullivan that: ''"his vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom."''〔''Culloden''. BBC Television Drama Documentary, 1964. Historical Adviser John Prebble. Written by Peter Watkins.〕 It was probably his reputation gained in the Corsican theatre that brought him to the attention of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who chose him as his adjutant and quartermaster-general during his campaign in Great Britain, the Jacobite Rising of 1745. O'Sullivan was constantly at Prince Charles' side from when the prince landed in Scotland on 23 July 1745, to his escape on 1 October 1746, escaping in a French frigate, the ''L'Heureux'' captained by his fellow-Irishman, Antoine Walsh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir John O'Sullivan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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