It saw the largest ever concentration of Irish soldiers on a battlefield.
The first settlers to the area were Irish soldiers, arriving in the 1820s.
In 1587-88 it was destroyed by Irish soldiers, reconstruction began in 1607.
For a start we wouldn't be so daft as to take the Irish soldiers away from the army.
Before this, an Irish soldier plunders a pig for food.
Some 40 Irish soldiers are expected to go to Kosovo as part of a peacekeeping force.
Nine Irish soldiers and some 25 tribesmen were killed.
The next day a couple of hundred Irish soldiers were found sheltering in a nearby wood.
There were Irish soldiers in the American army even then.
He was an Irish soldier who took the king's shilling.