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The war began in March 1689 when James II and VII landed in Ireland seeking to reverse the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, which had replaced him with his nephew William III and daughter Mary II. The conflict was part of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance , a coalition led by William as ...
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.
For Williamites in England, Scotland and Ireland, William was seen as the guarantor of civil and religious liberty and the Protestant monarchy against Catholic absolutism. The term "Williamite" is also commonly used to refer to William's multi-national army in Ireland during the Williamite War in Ireland, 1689–1691.
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.
This siege is part of the Williamite War in Ireland, which in turn is a side-show of the Nine Years' War. In Scotland, the privy council asked William to assume responsibility for the government in January 1689, and William and Mary were formally offered the Scottish throne in March. However, many Scottish people, especially among the Highland ...
Nine Years' War: Part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland 1641–42 Irish Rebellion of 1641: Part of the Eleven Years' War: 1642–49 Confederate War: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1649–53 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Part of the Eleven Years' War 1689–91 Williamite–Jacobite War: Part of the War of the Grand Alliance: 1798 Irish ...
The Danish Auxiliary Corps was a corps of 7,000 Danish soldiers sent to fight with William of Orange who was at war in Ireland. Disappointed with his alliance with France's King Louis XIV, Christian V of Denmark–Norway in 1689 entered into a treaty of military assistance with King William III of England.
The Battle of Newtownbutler took place near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1689 and was part of the Williamite War in Ireland between the forces of William III and Mary II and those of King James II.