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#REDIRECT flight of the Wild Geese The Flight of the Wild Geese refers to the depature of an Irish army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the Williamite war in Ireland with the Jacobites. ...


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Dead Wild Geese In Romania - Quarantines Expanded (346 words)
The finding of dead wild geese in the adjacent county of Ialomita provides additional evidence that the deaths of the domestic birds are due to H5N1 wild bird flu.
Wild geese are usually not killed by H5N1, but the H5N1 found in bar headed geese at Qinhai Lake in China had the unusual property of killing wild birds.
H5N1 in the wild birds would also suggest that H5N1 is widely distributed in Europe, although only government officials in Romania and Turkey have described bird die offs that were likely due to H5N1 wild bird flu from Siberia.
Flight of the Wild Geese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1277 words)
The Flight of the Wild Geese refers to the departure of an Irish army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the Williamite war in Ireland with the Jacobites.
More broadly, the term "Wild Geese" is used in Irish history to refer to the Irish soldiers who left to serve in continental European armies in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
This is popularly known in Ireland as the "Flight of the Wild Geese".
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