Williamite

However, this was followed by the protracted Williamite War in Ireland and Dundee's rising in Scotland.

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 ).

The Williamite forces went on a long detour march which, later in the day, almost saw them cut off the Jacobite retreat at the village of Naul.

Category: Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland

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

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

Schomberg's father died during the latter stages of the Battle which resulted in a decisive Williamite victory.

During the following century estate surveys were undertaken for the absentee landlord ( exiled since the Williamite wars of 1688-91 ) which tell of a wayside Inn that existed since the earliest times ( exact location unknown ), operated then in 1727 by a Cornelius Donnellan and was frequented around that time by Jonathan Swift during his several excursions to Co. Cavan.

It surrendered to Ireton in 1651 during the Cromwellian period and was burned by Sarsfield in 1688 during the Williamite Wars.

The best Williamite infantry were from Denmark and the Netherlands, professional soldiers equipped with the latest flintlock muskets.

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.

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.

It was during the 1690 siege that the infamous destruction of the Williamite guns at Ballyneety, near Pallasgreen was carried out by General Patrick Sarsfield.

The iconic Williamite victories of the Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne are still celebrated by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland today.

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

In nearby Enniskillen, just south of Derry, armed Williamite civilians drawn from the local Protestant population organised a formidable irregular military force.

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

The Flemings were lords of Slane from the twelfth century until seventeenth century, when the Conyngham family replaced them as lords of Slane during the Williamite Confiscations.

It mentions real events such as the death of the Duke of Schomberg, William of Orange's leading the Eniskillen cavalry ( Ulster Protestant settlers ) across the river Boyne, and the Williamite infantry's repulse of the Jacobite cavalry's counter-attacks.

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.

The Rock looks down on the site where Patrick Sarsfield destroyed the Williamite artillery during the Jacobite-Williamite War.

Because of the Williamite confiscations Charles Campbell became the landowner as a grantee of estates forfeited in 1688.

The civil articles were not honoured by the victorious Williamite government for long, as the Papacy again recognized James II as the lawful king of Ireland from 1693.

In the County Development Plan for 2000, Meath County Council rezoned the land at the eastern edge of Oldbridge, at the site of the main Williamite crossing, to residential status.

The bridge of 1685 featured prominently in the Williamite War in Ireland of the 17th century and was used by Patrick Sarsfield to retreat to Connacht after his ambush of a Williamite convoy at Ballyneety in Co.