James Napper Tandy (16 February 1739-24 August 1803) was a United Irishmen leader during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
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James Napper Tandy was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland on 16 February 1739, and he came from an Anglican Protestant family. He worked as a small tradesman in Dublin before becoming involved in the Irish republican cause during the 1780s. In 1791, he co-founded the United Irishmen and became its first secretary, and he went into exile in the United States from 1795 to 1798 due to his revolutionary activities. On 16 September 1798, he arrived in County Donegal amid the Irish Rebellion of 1798, taking Rutland before hearing of the uprising's failure and fleeing to Norway and then to Hamburg. He was captured there by the Royal Navy and was taken back to England, where he was imprisoned from 1800 to 1801; Napoleon's victory in the War of the Second Coalition forced Britain to free Tandy. Tandy died in exile in Bordeaux, France in 1803.