The Williamite Wars in Ireland

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 created by the Glorious Revolution. The principal events - the Siege of Londonderry, the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, and the two Sieges and Treaty of Limerick - have subsequently become totems around which opposing constructions of Irish history have been erected. John Childs, one of the foremost authorities on warfare in Early Modern Britain and Europe, cuts through myth and the accumulations of three centuries to present a balanced, detailed narrative and chronology of the campaigns. He 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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John Childs is Emeritus Professor of Military History at the University of Leeds, UK.

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Dedication
Abbreviations
Note on Dates
Preface

1. Preliminaries
2. Practical Matters
3. Towards War
4. Dromore and Coleraine
5. Clady and Ards Peninsula
6. The Defence of Londonderry and Enniskillen
7. General Kirke
8. Endurance
9. The Relief of Londonderry
10. A Tired Old Man
11. Sligo and Dundalk
12. Winter Operations
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
22. The Second Siege of Limerick
23. Dispersal
    Notes
    Index
    Maps