Author: Andrew HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : Enniskillen (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling-men, from Their First Taking Up of Arms in December, 1688. for the Defence of the Protestant Religion, and Their Lives and Liberties
Author: Andrew HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : Enniskillen (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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The Williamite Wars in Ireland
Author: John ChildsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852855738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The comprehensive defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the pan-European Nine Years' War, prevented the exiled James II from regaining his English throne, ended realistic prospects of a Stuart restoration and partially secured the new regime of King William III and Queen Mary created by the Glorious Revolution. The principal events - the Siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, and the two Sieges and Treaty of Limerick - have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected. Childs argues that the struggle was typical of the late-seventeenth century, principally decided by economic resources and attrition in which the 'small war' comprising patrols, raids, occupation of captured regions by small garrisons, police actions against irregulars and attacks on supply lines was more significant in determining the outcome than the set-piece battles and sieges.
General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army
Author: John ChildsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144112392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke was closely involved in some of the most important events in British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of his career, character, professional competence, politics and religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques and procedures.
English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosCatalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, ... Wilts. To which are added, an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, a Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings, and a Description of the Mansion, by the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. (Memoir of Sr. R. C. Hoare, ... partly written by himself.-Chronological list of the works of Sir R. C. Hoare.).
Author: John Bowyer NICHOLSCatalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts
Author: Sir Richard Colt HoarePublisher:
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The Diary of William King, D.D.
Author: William KingPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
A catalogue of the library of the College of st. Margaret and st. Bernard, commonly called Queen's college, in the University of Cambridge
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description