Operation AXIOM: Between the Wars—The Irish Civil War, Part I
22 June 1922: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson—A former Field Marshal & sitting Northern Irish member of the Westminster Parliament was killed in Liverpool by Irish Republican Army terrorists; the British, who still had troops in Southern Ireland, threatened revenge & pressured the Irish Provisional Government to reclaim Dublin's Four Courts, occupied by anti-Treaty partisans since April.Lest we forget.
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