Williamite

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.

Category: Williamite military personnel of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Early written accounts coincide with the Williamite War.

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?

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 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.

Category: Jacobite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland

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.

The lyrics refer to the Williamite war in Ireland 1689-91, which arose out of the Glorious Revolution.

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

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.

Category: Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland

In fact the city was heavily garrisoned by Williamite forces at the time which may better explain why the gates were barred to him.

His greatest victory was at the Battle of Killiecrankie, later that year against much greater Williamite forces led by General Hugh Mackay.