ping to 11. I know you will appreciate this one and I forgot to put you on the post.
Thanks Coug,
This isn’t the first time continentals tried to stir the pot with the Irish. Look into the Rising of 1798 when they were convinced the French were going to ride to the rescue.
The best book on the subject as a one volume study is “The Year of the French” by Thomas Flanagan (IIRC). I wrote my junior thesis on this, fortunately my school, being ancient had such first order sources as Wolfe Tone’s “Unite Irishmen”.