Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

=== Bompart's expedition to Ireland and arrest ===
When, in the spring of 1798, the Leinster directory bent under the pressure of the same martial-law measures applied to the south and called for a general insurrection on May 23, Tone was in the dark.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|364–367}} The most that he and the other Irish lobbyists had won from the Directory was the undertaking that once the news was received that the country had risen, they would seek to break through to the more open Atlantic coast of Ireland and land smaller numbers of men and supplies. In late August 1798, General [[Jean Joseph Amable Humbert|Jean Humbert]] succeeded in landing with a force of approximately 1,000 near [[Killala]], [[County Mayo]]. He advanced into the country but, once it was clear that the main rebel conjunctions in Ulster and Leinster had already been decisively defeated, he surrendered. Among the Irish prisoners taken were Teeling and Tone's brother Matthew. They were both [[court-martial]]led and hanged.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=C. J. |date=2009 |title=Tone, Mathew {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/tone-mathew-a8589#:~:text=Found%20guilty%20by%20the%20court,daughter,%20raised%20by%20Margaret%20Tone. |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref>

A second still smaller expedition, accompanied by Tandy, touched land in [[Donegal (town)|Donegal]] on 16 September but departed on the news of Humbert's defeat. Six days before, Tone had embarked with Admiral [[Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart]] and General [[Jean Hardy]] in command of a force of about 3,000 men. They encountered a British squadron at [[Buncrana]] on [[Lough Swilly]] on 12 October 1798. Tone, on the ship ''Hoche'', refused Bompart's offer of escape in a [[frigate]]. In the ensuing [[battle of Tory Island]] he commanded one of the ship's batteries until, isolated and crippled after several hours of bombardment, the ship struck and Bompart surrendered.{{sfn|McNeill|1911|p=3}} Two weeks later, held with his fellow French officers in the privy-quarters of [[Richard Lambart, 7th Earl of Cavan|Lord Cavan]]'s in Letterkenny, he was recognised by [[Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet|Sir George Hill]], a Member of Parliament (and a leading member of the new [[Orange Order]]) and was arrested.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McGinley |first=John |date=2021 |title=The Battle of Tory Island – the last engagement of the United Irishman rebellion of 1798 – The Irish Story |url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2021/03/08/the-battle-of-tory-island-the-last-engagement-of-the-united-irishman-rebellion-of-1798/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |language=en-GB}}</ref>