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29: 180: 78:. For Williamites in England, Scotland and Ireland, William was seen as the guarantor of civil and religious liberty and the Protestant monarchy against Catholic 97: 286: 164: 89:, 1689–1691. In Ireland itself, William was primarily supported by Protestants and opposed by the native and Anglo-Irish Catholic 291: 197:
architecture built c. 1690–1710 in the conservative classicising English tradition that had been established under Charles II by
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by 1691. William himself led his forces at the Boyne in 1690, which was widely commemorated in paintings such as
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The term "Williamite" is also commonly used to refer to William's multi-national army in Ireland during the
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Followers of King William III, who took over the British throne in the Glorious Revolution (1688)
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and particularly in Ulster. However the Jacobite Irish Army was able to re-establish control,
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Stoke Edith was referred to as an example of "the standard seventeenth-century product (the
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After these early setbacks, Williamite forces won a series of victories during the war,
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was purged of Protestants, who were replaced by Catholic officers and soldiers. The
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who supported James. Once James II had come to the throne in 1685, he had his
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The "Williamite Purple Star" is still part of the flag of the
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One of William's aims was to ensure England's entry into his
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replace Protestants with Catholics in the government. The
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The purple star of the Williamite army is present on the
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In response in 1689 Irish Protestants formed their own
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Index

Willemite
Flag of the Orange Order
flag of the Orange Order
William III of England
James II and VII
Glorious Revolution
Stadtholder
Dutch Republic
Whigs
League of Augsburg
Nine Years' War
absolutism
Williamite War in Ireland
Jacobites
viceroy
Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell
Royal Irish Army
Irish Militia
Army of the North
Cork
taking Bandon
Break of Dromore
Derry
Enniskillen
defending Derry
capturing Carrickfergus
the Boyne
Aughrim
decisive victory at Limerick
Benjamin West

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