Robert Emmet was executed on September 20 ... The best-known concludes thus: “Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ...
EMMETSBURG, Iowa (KCAU) – The city of Emmetsburg is named after Irish patriot Robert Emmet. At just 25 years old, he was tried for treason, and hanged in 1803. His statue still stands in the ...