You can realise it, and begin by taking over two or three hundred picked Irish and English--have both races capable of handling spade and musket; purchasing some thousands of acres to establish a legal footing there.
'You increase your colony from the mother country in the ratio of your prosperity, until your power is respected, and there is a necessity for the extension of your territory.

When you are feared you will be on your mettle.

They will favour you with provocation.

I should not doubt the result, supposing myself to have under my sole command a trained body of men of English blood--and Irish.' 'Owners of the soil,' rejoined Patrick, much marvelling.
'Undoubtedly, owners of the soil, but owing you service.' 'They fight sir' 'It is hardly to be specified in the calculation, knowing them.

Soldiery who have served their term, particularly old artillerymen, would be my choice: young fellows and boys among them.