** Battle of Aughrim: Williamite troops defeat the Jacobites in Ireland.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

The Williamite army at the Boyne was about 36, 000 strong, composed of troops from many countries.

Speaking at Maryborough, now Port Laoise, on the 16 August 1914, he addressed a 2, 000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some armed, and according to the report in the Irish Times stated, " recently, I took the liberty of saying in the English Parliament that, for the first time in the history of the connection between England and Ireland, it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves, North and South, Catholic and Protestant, and whatever the origin of their race might have been – Williamite, Cromwellian, or old Celtic – standing shoulder to shoulder, would defend the good order and peace of Ireland, and defend her shores against any foreign foe.

The Williamite forces, composed of British, Dutch and Danish armies as well as troops raised in Ulster, ended Jacobite resistance by 1691, confirming the Protestant monopoly on power in Ireland.

He fought in the Franco-Dutch War, then played a crucial role in the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland and finally commanded the British troops deployed to Portugal during the War of the Spanish Succession.

The castle was then largely destroyed in 1692 by Williamite troops who had been holding the castle against Jacobite forces.

Many of the Jacobites ' troops fled as the first shots were fired, and up to 1500 of them were hacked down or drowned when pursued by the Williamite cavalry.

Partly as a result of this defeat and partly because of a major Williamite landing in the east of the province, most Jacobite troops were withdrawn from Ulster and encamped near Dundalk.

George Warter Story, a chaplain with a Williamite regiment, relates that the rapparees hid their weapons in bogs when Williamite troops were in the area and melted into the civilian population, only to re-arm and reappear when the troops were gone.

The rapparees were a considerable help to the Jacobite war effort, tying down thousands of Williamite troops who had to protect supply depots and columns.

Mountcashel managed to drive off Berry's cavalry with his main force, but was then faced with the bulk of the Williamite strength under Wolesley, who was pursuing him with more twice his number of troops.

Many of the Jacobite troops fled as the first shots were fired and up to 1500 of them were hacked down or drowned in Upper Lough Erne when pursued by the Williamite cavalry.

For their part, Williamite forces were supplied from the north, and in August the Duke of Schomberg arrived with 15, 000 Danish, Dutch, Huguenot, and English reinforcements.

The decisive victory of the Williamite forces at the battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the battle of Aughrim in 1691, confirmed the new Protestant monarchy and finally secured New English interests in Ireland.

Unsuccessful revolts against English rule in 1595 – 1603 and 1641 – 1653 and then the 1689-91 Williamite Wars caused much Irish land to be confiscated by the Crown, and then sold to people who were thought loyal, most of whom were English and Protestant.

The Protestant Ulster community, including the Scots, fought on the Williamite side in the war against Irish Catholics and their French allies.

Later defenders of the Patriot Parliament pointed out that the ensuing " Williamite Settlement forfeitures " of the 1690s named an even larger number of Jacobite suspects, most of whom had been attainted by 1699.

Since 1691 and the end of the Williamite war, Ireland had chiefly been controlled by the minority Anglican Protestant Ascendancy constituting members of the established Church loyal to the British Crown.

The Jacobite soldiers also had the option of joining the Williamite army.

The Williamite victory in the war in Ireland had two main long term results.

Prior to this, Slane Castle had been in the possession of the Flemings, Anglo-Norman Catholics who had aligned themselves with the Jacobites in the War of the Grand Alliance, and thus after the Williamite victory, their property was eligible for confiscation.

Many of the Frenchmen were former soldiers, who had fought on the Williamite side in the Williamite war in Ireland.

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

In the late 1680s, the term appears in the satirical Williamite ballad Lilliburlero which includes the line " Ho brother Taig hast thou heard the decree?

Their first child, Moroni Abel was born there in 1849, and in 1850, per the 1850 Census of Cincinnati, they were boarding Henry Nisonger and his family ; Nisonger was an Apostle in the schismatic Williamite Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which recognized William Smith, the only surviving brother of Joseph Smith as its prophet.

However the Williamite death toll released by them at the time was only 600 and they claimed to have killed fully 7, 000 Jacobites.

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.

By 1700, after further Irish defeat in the Williamite War, the aristocracy in Ireland was dominated by Protestant families who owed allegiance to the British Crown.

The Battle of the Boyne, a major battle in Irish history, took place along the Boyne near Drogheda in 1690 during the Williamite war in Ireland.

The 17th Knight, Gerald FitzGerald, was a Member for Limerick County in the Irish Patriot Parliament of 1689, called by James II during the Williamite war.

Martyn was descended from Richard Óge Martyn ( c. 1604-1648 ), a leading Irish Confederate, and Oliver Óge Martyn ( c. 1630-c. 1709 ), a Jacobite who fought in the Williamite War in Ireland.

The Flight of the Wild Geese refers to the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.

The crucial turning point came during the Williamite War in Ireland ( 1688 – 91 ), when Louis XIV gave military and financial aid to the Irish Jacobites.

The Williamite War in Ireland, also called the Jacobite War in Ireland, the Williamite – Jacobite War in Ireland and in Irish Cogadh an Dá Rí (" the War of the Two Kings "), was a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The Irish Jacobites retreated to Limerick, where they repulsed a Williamite assault, inflicting heavy casualties, in August 1690.

During the Williamite war in Ireland, the island was used as an internment camp for Irish soldiers.

A generation later, during the Glorious Revolution, many of the Irish Catholic landed class tried to reverse the remaining Cromwellian settlement in the Williamite War in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ), where they fought en masse for the Jacobites.

Rapparees ( from the Irish ropairí, plural of ropaire, meaning half-pike or pike-wielding person ) were Irish guerrilla fighters who operated on the Jacobite side during the 1690s Williamite war in Ireland.

The 1641 Rising by the Irish of Ulster, the Cromwellian Conquest of 1649, and the subsequent Williamite wars of the 1690s all took their toll on the local economy.

There has been an active association between the Conynghams and the Slane Estate in County Meath dating back over 300 years, ever since the property was purchased by the family following the Williamite Confiscations in 1701.

Eventually, the final Williamite assault was driven back with heavy losses by cavalry and pursued into the bog, where more of them were killed or drowned.

The Jacobite general Marquis de St Ruth, after the third infantry rush on the Williamite position up to their cannons, appeared to believe that the battle could be won and was heard to shout, " they are running, we will chase them back to the gates of Dublin ".

However, as he tried to rally his cavalry on the left to counter-attack and drive the Williamite horse back, he was decapitated by a cannon ball.