Ireland

In 1690 perhaps the most important of events in Ireland until this date occurred. The battle of the Boyne fought by the exiled former king of England, James II and the forces of the Netherlands ruler William of Orange, who had been proclaimed, William III, king of England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1989. The battle was fought on July 12, 1690 and William III destroyed James II and his forces on Boyne, a river in Ireland. William who had 35,000 compared to James with 21,000, William lost 500, and James 1500. The people who supported James were mostly people who did not wish for a constitutional monarchy. A long-term effect is that the Protestant order of Or...