Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report, Jean Cuvelier, Francis, Baron Dhanis, Congo Reform Association, Lado Enclave, King Leopold's Soliloquy, List of heads of state of the Congo Free State, Thangata. Excerpt: Roger David Casement (Irish: 1 September 1864 - 3 August 1916)-Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours-was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. He was a British consul by profession, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru but better known for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916. An Irish nationalist and Parnellite in his youth, he worked in Africa for commercial interests and latterly in the service of Britain. However, the Boer War and his consular investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist and ultimately to Irish Republican and separatist political opinions. He sought to obtain German support for a rebellion in Ireland against British rule. Shortly after the Easter Rising, he was arrested, convicted, and executed by the British for treason. Casement was born near Dublin, living in very early childhood at Doyle's Cottage, Lawson Terrace, Sandycove. His Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of (The King's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant (Hugh Casement), who later moved to Australia. Captain Casement served in the 1842 Afghan campaign. Casement's mother, Anne Jephson of Dublin (whose origins are obscure), had him rebaptised secretly as a Roman Catholic when he reached the age of three, in Rhyl. She died in Worthing when her son was nine. According to an 18...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Congo Free State: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere Du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report. To get started finding Congo Free State: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere Du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Congo Free State: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere Du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report, Jean Cuvelier, Francis, Baron Dhanis, Congo Reform Association, Lado Enclave, King Leopold's Soliloquy, List of heads of state of the Congo Free State, Thangata. Excerpt: Roger David Casement (Irish: 1 September 1864 - 3 August 1916)-Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours-was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. He was a British consul by profession, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru but better known for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916. An Irish nationalist and Parnellite in his youth, he worked in Africa for commercial interests and latterly in the service of Britain. However, the Boer War and his consular investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist and ultimately to Irish Republican and separatist political opinions. He sought to obtain German support for a rebellion in Ireland against British rule. Shortly after the Easter Rising, he was arrested, convicted, and executed by the British for treason. Casement was born near Dublin, living in very early childhood at Doyle's Cottage, Lawson Terrace, Sandycove. His Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of (The King's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant (Hugh Casement), who later moved to Australia. Captain Casement served in the 1842 Afghan campaign. Casement's mother, Anne Jephson of Dublin (whose origins are obscure), had him rebaptised secretly as a Roman Catholic when he reached the age of three, in Rhyl. She died in Worthing when her son was nine. According to an 18...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Congo Free State: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere Du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report. To get started finding Congo Free State: Roger Casement, Force Publique, King Leopold's Ghost, Union Miniere Du Haut Katanga, Tippu Tip, Omer Bodson, Casement Report, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.