(P/B) THE WILLIAMITE WARS IN IRELAND

Παρουσίαση

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 that had been created by the Glorious Revolution. The principal events - the siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Augury, and the two sieges and Treaty of Limerick - have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected.
Child 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. (From the publisher)

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Note on maps and place names
Preface
1. Preliminaries, 1688
2. Practical Matters
3. Towards War, 1689
4. The Break of Dromore and the retreat to Coleraine
5. Clady and the Ards Peninsula
6. The Defence of Derry and Enniskillen
7. General Kirke
8. Endurance
9. The relief of Derry and Newtownbutler
10. A tired Old Man
11. Sligo and Dundalk
12. Winter operations, 1689-90
13. The Battle of Boyne
14. From Dublin to Limerick
15. The first siege of Limerick
16. Cork and Kinsale
17. A war of posts and ambuscades
18. Spring 1691
19. Ballymore and Athlone
20. Aughrim and Galway
21. The Curious Affair at Sligo, or the banalities of the small war
22. The second siege of Limerick
23. Dispersal
Notes
Select bibliography
Index