After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

* 12th July ( Battle of the Boyne ) and ( Orangemen's Day ) in Northern Ireland.

* 1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne ( as reckoned under the Julian calendar ).

* 1690 – Battle of the Boyne ( Julian calendar ) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.

* July 11 – Battle of the Boyne, north of Dublin.

Following the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by William of Orange en route to Dublin city.

William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the Orange Order.

The Battle of the Boyne, 1690, occurred some west of the town, on the banks of the River Boyne, at Oldbridge.

The Battle of the Boyne (, ) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thronesthe Catholic King James and the Protestant King William ( who had deposed James in 1688 ) across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland.

Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg.

The battle was overshadowed in its time in England by the defeat of an Anglo-Dutch fleet by the French two days later at the Battle of Beachy Head, a far more serious event in the short term ; only on the continent was the Boyne treated as an important victory.

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.

But after the Orange Order was founded in 1795 amid sectarian violence in Armagh, the focus of parades on 12 July switched to the Battle of the Boyne.

Despite this, there are also smaller parades and demonstrations on 1 July, the date which maps the old style date of the Boyne to the new style in the usual manner and which also commemorate the heavy losses of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

The Battle of the Boyne remains a controversial topic today, especially in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.

The site of the Battle of the Boyne sprawls over a wide area west of the town of Drogheda.

* Padraig Lenihan, 1690 Battle of the Boyne, Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire 2003.

* Battle of the Boyne visitor centre at Oldbridge, plus battle information

* Boyne Valley Tourist Portal – Information on Battle of the Boyne

* Tourist Information on Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre

* Primary and secondary sources relating to the Battle of the Boyne ( From the National Library of Ireland's Sources database )

* Interview with historian Padraig Lenihan on the Battle of the Boyne

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