Howe Browne News Today

When the 13 colonies of the United States declared independence in 1776, the first country to recognise the new nation was France. Other leading European powers, such as Britain and Spain, acknowledged its arrival at the Treaty of Paris, two years after a decisive victory by American forces. Yet when Haiti asserted independence in 1804,

Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo was ‘the poor man’s friend’ of Ireland and the ‘emancipator of slaves’ in Jamaica, but his history is often forgotten.