Life
1702-1766 [Lally-Tollendal]; b. Romans, in Dauphiné, Jan. 1702;
2nd son of Sir Gerard Lally, from Tullaghnadaly, Co. Galway [hence Tollendal],
a ‘wild goose’ who left Ireland in 1691 and m. Marie Anne de
Bressac; victor at Fontenoy, and loser at Wandiwash, 1761; executed in
Paris, 1766. DNB
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Criticism
Voltaire, Fragments sur l’Inde, sur le Général Lalli
[&c.] (Paris 1773).
Marquis de Lally-Tollendal, Plaidoyer du Comte de Lally-Tollendal (Rouen 1780).
Maurice N. Hennessy, ‘The Fate of Lally’, The Wild Geese [Chp. VIII] (1973), pp.87-98.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)