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00:00Wolf Tone was obviously a very charismatic man
00:03to convince Frenchmen who had never known him before
00:06to send four expeditions to Ireland.
00:09But he had a great way with words,
00:10and obviously the French Directory and Napoleon
00:13had a lot of faith in him.
00:14For the French part, they saw his idea as being clever.
00:18If you take Ireland, you have a backdoor into England.
00:21Later on, the Duke of Wellington himself
00:23would call Tone's work, getting four expeditions
00:26from France to Ireland, an achievement of genius.
00:30["Pomp and Circumstance"]