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Originally, Irish Protestants commemorated the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July ( old style, equivalent to 23 July new style ), symbolising their victory in the Williamite war in Ireland.
At Aughrim, which took place a year after the Boyne, the Jacobite army was destroyed, deciding the war in the Williamites ' favour.
The Boyne, which in the old Julian calendar, took place on 1 July, was treated as less important, third after Aughrim and the anniversary of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 on 23 October.
What was celebrated on " The Twelfth " was not William's " victory over Popery at the Battle of the Boyne ", but the extermination of the elite of the Catholic Irish at Aughrim, thereby ending the fear of having to surrender the planted lands.

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