Defenders were Irish catholics who banded together to combat the protestant Peep o' Day Boys. They began to organize in the 1780s and in the 1790s merged with the United Irishmen. The spread of catholic disaffection culminated in the Irish rising of 1798.
Defenders
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- Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Vol. 2 (194z Children's/Family Film)
- to the last (Idiom)
- breastwork (ordnance)
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