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A Williamite was a follower of King William III of England (r. 1689–1702) who deposed King James II and VII in the Glorious Revolution. William, the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, replaced James with the support of English Whigs. One of William's aims was to ensure England's entry into his League of Augsburg against France in the Nine ...
In 1687 he published a book of Poetical Exercises. The following year he was serving as lieutenant-colonel in Holland . General Hugh Mackay described Cutts about this time as "pretty tall, lusty and well shaped, an agreeable companion with abundance of wit, affable and familiar, but too much seized with vanity and self-conceit".
The Williamite Revolution in Ireland 1688–1691 in The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact (2008 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521390750. Kinsella, Eoin (2009). "In pursuit of a positive construction: Irish Catholics and the Williamite articles of surrender, 1690–1701". Eighteenth-Century ...
Williamite histories claim that many of the Jacobite troops fled as the first shots were fired; that up to 1,500 of them were hacked down or drowned in Upper Lough Erne when pursued by the Williamite cavalry; that of 500 men who tried to swim across the Lough, only one survived; and that about 400 Jacobite officers, along with Lord Mountcashel ...
The Battle of Aughrim (Irish: Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite army loyal to James II and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 (old style, equivalent to 22 July new style), near the village of Aughrim, County Galway.
General William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, KT, PC (c. 1672 – 17 July 1726) was a British Army officer, diplomat, politician and peer. He began his active military service during the Williamite War in Ireland in 1689 and ended it with the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.
After the Danish stronghold York was captured in 1068, he was appointed the second High Sheriff of Yorkshire. William was in charge of the garrisons defending the shire, and built a timbered castle fortress on a motte in York and another wooden castle across the River Ouse. His efforts at defending the shire from Danish raids were, in the end ...
George Carpenter was born on 10 February 1657 in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire, the youngest of seven children.His parents were Warncombe and Eleanor Carpenter, whose family had owned property in the county for over 400 years, the main estate being Homme near Dilwyn.