Williamite War in Ireland

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The Williamite War in Ireland took place from March 1689 to October 1691. Fought between Jacobite supporters of James II and those of his successor, William III, it resulted in a Williamite victory. It is generally viewed as a related conflict of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War. The November 1688 Glorious Revolution replaced the Catholic James with his Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband William, who ruled as joint monarchs of England, Ireland, and Scotland. However, James retained considerable support in largely Catholic Ireland, where it was hoped he would address long-standing Irish Catholic grievances on land ownership, religion and civic rights. The war began in March 1689 with a series of skirmishes between the mostly-Catholic Irish Army, which had stayed loyal in 1688, and newly-raised Protestant troops. Fighting culminated in the siege of Derry, where the Jacobites failed to regain control of one of the north's key towns. This enabled William to land an expeditionary force...

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