"Battle of the Boyne: How William of Orange defeated James II" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Aug 2020 9:48 p.m. PST |
…to change the course of Irish history "The Battle of the Boyne was fought on 1 July 1690 between the armies of the Catholic King James II of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Protestant Dutchman William of Orange.
William had deposed James, his uncle and father-in-law, from the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 but James had escaped to France, then Europe's premier military superpower, who had rearmed the fallen monarch and fellow Catholic in the interests of seeing William, an enemy of Louis XIV, brought down. Revitalised, James had begun his campaign to regain the English crown in Ireland in 1689…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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