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The Blacksmith Who Defeated 60 British Soldiers With 5 Men | Ireland’s Forgotten Warrior

On November 3rd, 1920, in the small village of Ballinalee, County Longford, something impossible happened. Six Irish Republican Army fighters, led by a blacksmith named Seán MacEoin, ambushed and defeated over sixty British soldiers backed by an armored car equipped with machine guns. This wasn’t luck. This was tactical genius. Seán MacEoin had no formal military training. He learned warfare the same way he learned blacksmithing—through careful …
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