Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan

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Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c. 1655 – August 1693) was an Irish army officer. Fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693 while serving in the French Royal Army, he died of his injuries several weeks later, and is now best remembered as an Irish patriot and military hero. Born into a wealthy Catholic family, Sarsfield began his military career during the 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War. After fellow Catholic James II of England was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in November 1688, Sarsfield served as a senior commander in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, and was elected to the 1689 Patriot Parliament. Fighting in Ireland ended with the 1691 Treaty of Limerick. Under the agreement, thousands of Irish soldiers went into exile in France, and many served in Flanders during the Nine Years' War, including Sarsfield.

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