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The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə]) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland [b] in 1689.
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
The 2nd Parliament of King William III and Queen Mary II was summoned by William III of England and Mary II of England on 6 February 1690 and assembled on 20 March 1690. The new parliament was more or less equally divided along party lines, with 243 Whig and 241 Tory members, plus 28 others.
William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688. The Dutch preparations, though carried out with great speed, could not remain secret. The English envoy Ignatius White , the Marquess d'Albeville, warned his country: "an absolute conquest is intended under the specious and ordinary pretences of religion ...
The siege of Cork took place during the Williamite war in Ireland in the year of 1690, shortly after the Battle of the Boyne when James II attempted to retake the English throne from King William III. In a combined land and sea operation, Williamite commander Marlborough, took the city and captured 5,000 Jacobites. [1]
The British Army of William III, 1689–1702. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719019876. Clarke, JS (1816). The Life of James the Second, King of England, Collected Out of Memoirs Writ of His Own Hand, Vol. 2 of 2 (2017 ed.). Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-0265170588. Connolly, S.J. (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630–1800. Oxford UP.
14 June – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands at Carrickfergus in Ulster and marches south to take Dublin.; 29 June – Williamites reach the River Boyne.; 1 July – Battle of the Boyne: William III defeats the deposed James II of England, who returns to exile in France [1] [2] [3] from Kinsale.
King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern Ireland. The "King Billy" murals are a mixture of "some old, some new, some ornate, some naïve". [7] Many of the murals feature the date 1690, in relation to the Battle of the Boyne. [8]