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- Book Synopsis
- The Boyne was, and is, politically potent: how many other battles are commemorated every year? Yet it was militarily indecisive. The largest battle in Irish history, it concluded the English War of Succession, the Irish and French-backed James II being defeated by William III securing a Protestant monarchy in England.A startling new history of the largest and most famous battle in Irish history, this book incorporates findings of a series of newly discovered sources. Was the Boyne really as important as William of Orange's propagandists claimed, or was it, as the losers--the French and many of the Irish--insisted, "only a skirmish"?Padraig Lenihan reconciles the political potency of the Boyne with its military indecisiveness, challenging the conventional view of this most controversial event.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780752433042
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The History Press, (01 July 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 239
- Weight
- 270 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 126 x 19 mm
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