John Childs

The Williamite Wars in Ireland

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781847251640
• ISBN-10: 1847251641
• Artikelnr.: 23376601

Autorenporträt

John Childs

Inhaltsangabe

Maps Abbreviations Note on dates Note on distances Note on spelling and
punctuation 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