Synopses & Reviews
<div><span>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 </span><span>- </span><span>the siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Augury, and the two sieges and Treaty of Limerick </span><span>- </span><span>have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected. </span><br/><div> </div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">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.</span></div> >
Synopsis
<div><span>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 </span><span>- </span><span>the siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Augury, and the two sieges and Treaty of Limerick </span><span>- </span><span>have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected. </span><br/><div> </div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">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.</span></div> >
Table of Contents
MapsAbbreviationsNote on datesNote on distancesNote on spelling and punctuationNote on maps and place namesPreface1. Preliminaries, 16882. Practical Matters3. Towards War, 16894. The Break of Dromore and the retreat to Coleraine5. Clady and the Ards Peninsula6. The Defence of Derry and Enniskillen7. General Kirke8. Endurance9. The relief of Derry and Newtownbutler10. A tired Old Man11. Sligo and Dundalk12. Winter operations, 1689-9013. The Battle of Boyne14. From Dublin to Limerick15. The first siege of Limerick16. Cork and Kinsale17. A war of posts and ambuscades18. Spring 169119. Ballymore and Athlone20. Aughrim and Galway21. The Curious Affair at Sligo, or the banalities of the small war22. The second siege of Limerick23. DispersalNotesSelect bibliographyIndex