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Williamite and victory
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.
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.
His greatest victory was at the Battle of Killiecrankie, later that year against much greater Williamite forces led by General Hugh Mackay.
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.
The Sash ( also known as The Sash My Father Wore ) is a ballad from Ireland commemorating the victory of King William III in the Williamite war in Ireland in 1690 – 1691.
Schomberg's father died during the latter stages of the Battle which resulted in a decisive Williamite victory.
Protestants, on the other hand, portrayed the Williamite victory as a triumph for religious and civil liberty.
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.
The Williamite victory at Newtownbutler ensured that a landing by the Duke of Schomberg in County Down in August 1689 was unopposed.

Williamite and war
The Treaty of Limerick ended the Williamite war in Ireland which was fought between supporters of the Catholic King James II ( Jacobites ) and the Protestant King William of Orange ( Williamites ).
Huguenot regiments fought for William of Orange in the Williamite war in Ireland, for which they were rewarded with land grants and titles, many settling in Dublin.
In the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ), the Jacobites also retreated behind the Shannon after their defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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 lyrics refer to the Williamite war in Ireland 1689-91, which arose out of the Glorious Revolution.
Like the Confederates, they were also defeated in the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ).
In the subsequent Williamite war in Ireland Catholic Jacobites tried to recover their position by supporting James II.
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.
The Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ) was fought between Jacobites who supported the restoration of the Catholic James II to the throne of England and Williamites who supported the Protestant William of Orange.
The Protestant Ulster community, including the Scots, fought on the Williamite side in the war against Irish Catholics and their French allies.
Obtaining promotion in the army, he served with distinction in the Williamite war in Ireland and in the Netherlands.
He accompanied William III to England in 1688, and during the Williamite war in Ireland he took part in the Siege of Carrickfergus and the Battle of the Boyne, and was wounded at the Siege of Limerick ( 1690 ).
In return for its support during the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1688 – 91 ), a Roman Catholic majority Patriot Parliament of 1689 persuaded James to pass legislation granting it autonomy to and to restore lands confiscated from Catholics in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Despite the fact that Scottish Presbyterians strongly supported the Williamites in the Williamite war in Ireland in the 1690s, they were excluded from power in the postwar settlement by the Anglican Protestant Ascendancy.
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 Treaty of Limerick () ended the Williamite war in Ireland between the Jacobites and the supporters of William of Orange.
It was formed in May 1690 when five Jacobite regiments were sent from Ireland to France in return for a larger force of French infantry who were sent to fight in the Williamite war in Ireland.
It was garrisoned for James II in 1689, during the Williamite war in Ireland, then remained unoccupied after his defeat, and fell into decay.
As a result of Williamite intransigence, the war continued.
For this reason, the battles of the Williamite war are still commemorated by Protestant Unionists in Ulster, principally by the Orange Order on the Twelfth of July
The Williamite war in Ireland was the opening conflict in James ' attempts to regain the throne.
During the Williamite war in Ireland, the island was used as an internment camp for Irish soldiers.

Williamite and Ireland
During the conflict which resulted from the ousting of King James II by his Protestant rival, William III, Enniskillen and Derry were the focus of Williamite resistance in Ireland, including the nearby Battle of Newtownbutler.
However, this was followed by the protracted Williamite War in Ireland and Dundee's rising in Scotland.
Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.
* 1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
** Battle of Aughrim: Williamite troops defeat the Jacobites in Ireland.
)-Start of the Williamite War in Ireland: The deposed James II of England lands with 6, 000 French soldiers in Ireland, where there is a Catholic majority, hoping to use it as the base for a counter-coup.
** Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Derry: James II arrives at the gates of Derry and asks for its surrender, which is refused by the Protestant defenders.
* Richard Doherty, ' The Williamite War in Ireland 1688 – 1691 ', Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998.
Category: Battles of the Williamite War in Ireland
During the Williamite War in Ireland ( 1689 – 1691 ) the city was to endure two further sieges, one in 1690 and another in 1691.
Category: Williamite military personnel of 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.
He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years ' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Nevertheless he subsequently joined the forces of William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of the Queen's Troop of Horse Guards on 20 April 1689, and commanded the Queen's Troop at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.
In 1688-90, during the Williamite War in Ireland, James II and his fellow Roman Catholics briefly repossessed St. Patrick's.
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.

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