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Eoghan Attack Research Paper

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On June 28, 1922 Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland had a war over the peace treaty between Britain and Ireland. The IRA had recruited one man to go behind enemy lines and kill Northern Ireland’s general to stop the attacking force. They had recruited Eoghan Reid. Eoghan has red hair, an average build, he’s 5 feet 7 inches tall, and a short beard. He was recruited because of his intelligence, his training, his quick thinking, and he focuses on the task at hand. He was sent on his mission on the July 14, 1922. They sent him to Belfast was pretty much right on the general’s location. He was ordered to watch and record the general’s movements for 1 week, then take him out. Eoghan got across the border easily and to the rundown apartment …show more content…

It was hard to set it up to get a good view without sticking the barrel out of the window to stay as stealthy as a mouse. But it wouldn’t matter because a guard noticed some strange activity the day before had in the apartments. The guard informed the general and the general was planned the raid for the apartment building. When the general walked out to go to a meeting he lined up the shot and fired. Time slowed down and Eoghan The only problem was that this was a set up. The general had switched with a privet for precaution just in case there was an assassin. The general was correct with his assumption. After Eoghan shot the man he thought was the general he noticed that it wasn’t him after all. The general was now one of the soldiers that was now shooting at him. He had to line up another shot and shoot again. This time he got him but when he started to run out of the building he noticed a sharp and warm pain in his left side. He had been shoot in the gut. All the sudden he stopped. Eoghan had never been shot before. He was shocked. When he was running up the stairs he hear a door get broken down and stomping footsteps and one of his booby traps explode. He ran even faster to the

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