Battle of the Boyne, 1690 ⚔️ When the balance of power in Europe changed forever 

Hey just an idea but a battle after this was the siege of Limerick it was a strong battle which I would love to see

Please make a video on the Battle of Denain. It is one of the most important battles in the War of the Spanish Succession

You always find such curious battles to make video's out of. Nicely done video.

next video battle of the trench please

If you looking for good examples, try to find batles between Stefan cel Mare and Turkish empire

... I laughed so hard to this comment :D

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@@TheDogGoesWoof69 O'RLLY?

And I’d be dammed if I’d miss out on it

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"Will-yum", "battal-yun". He's an awful narrator. 'Hugenot' was a travesty of a pronunciation as well.

@@ChrisDynamoAgreed.Lack of knowledge of pronunciation of Irish names seriously belittles the great work.

Nah, he's a pretty banging narrator

He may be a goodish narrator, but he really needs to check the pronunciation of place names. It's quite distracting every time he gets it wrong

@@Amadhan655 not just Irish places. I had to double check where he was talking about when he tried to say Salisbury

and, of course, Saint Oliver Plunkett's head on display in St. Peter's Church on the main street....it's very gruesome but fascinating!

More than 30 years ago on the other side of the world, I briefly met a raven haired, ivory skinned girl of stunning beauty. I cannot remember her name, but I clearly remember her Irish mates teasing her about being from Drogheda.

Beautiful countryside, unfortunately it's a bit of a scumbag town

​@leanbanclog there's trouble everywhere these days, drogheda is savage for a night out, and a smashing place in general. From a "born bred and buttered " Dub.

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I love these videos, but history is more than battles. I get the US system is bad - were you really taught history?

@@antorseax9492 American history classes intentionally teach very little history, as an American with an interest in history.

To be fair there is so little time to teach so much. At my school we had one year to learn all of ancient history and one year to learn modern. You really only have enough time to teach the bare minimum. The depth of detail in these videos are closer to an upper division college class.

@@antorseax9492 after studying several eras of history, I don't agree. History is the story of power struggles and conflict. Humans have been at war with themselves for almost the entirety of our existence, it's in our nature. Many scholars would argue that the very origin and concept of government is simply a means to mobilize for warfare.

@@antorseax9492 The public school system in the US hasn't been anything other than indoctrination for the last 30 year and was of poor quality for 10 years before that. This is what US student learn: America=bad, whites=bad, Christians=bad, Western civilization=bad, and that is all they learn. Since they are not taught mathematics, economics or sciences, even if the students wanted to learn history on their own, they wouldn't understand it.

Yes he was an utter failure.

When you're oppressed you take any opportunity nomstter how slim to try free yourself .

And a major slave trader, and altogether nasty type who wanted absolute monarchy.

They only signed up because he was English.

James’ Irish followers fought for him under the hope he would restore their rights and reverse the land grabs of the previous decades

Thank you for the effort. From the Bronx..

Wow! Thanks!

Williamites were the first fascists that hide behind the Constitutional monarchy . King William III was like Colonel Nathan Jessop in A Few Good Men.

I am guessing you attended a Catholic school then. I daresay a Unionist syllabus looks somewhat different. Understanding biases in your sources of information is an important part of reaching the objective truth.

​@@zelandakhniteblade5436Catholic people who already had suffered genocide land loss 40 years previously to this era still made up 80 % of the population what Unionist bias they were fighting for survival and their ancestral land culture, language English/ British people historians need to acknowledge the experiences of their nearest neighbour thankfully ROI is a proud member of a progressive Europe!

@@sandrabrowne2350 That is sort of my point. There are biases on every side and different weights placed on the various historical events according to convenience. Frankly what the British did in Ireland is a black mark on the nation but I cannot say I really heard much about it in an English schooling. Finding alternative sources helps a great deal in at least grasping the fundamentals.

@@sandrabrowne2350 How is your land , culture and language at the moment with progressive Europe's immigration policies?

@@elemar5 great learning by others mistakes certainty Brexit a disaster on every front and will not go down road of "Orange Racialism" Irish culture games thriving amongst new Irish right wing a very small minority problems with influx due to Ukraine war but solvable ROI could still cope with another million people if economic conditions right better to be part of a market of 300m than outside "English ,exceptionalism " a joke!

Said Lim-er-ick though

Bangor and Dromore were pretty iffy as well

yeah very true but given Kings and General's awful attempt at it a while ago i had to give them a shout out for getting the hardest one right, although yeah when I heard Bangor I did cringe haha

Tyrconnell was off as well but for the most part it was pretty good

You expect him to get the Irish names and places right, when he can't even say "Salisbury" correctly?

So kind of you

Thank you for the kind words and the support! Much appreciated!

Thanks for keeping this amazing channel funded :)

'agreed, we need more genuine history lessons. But in a couple years this will be remade by hollywood with all black american actors that say the evil whites stole their history and they are simply correcting the racist history books. this is slight jest but netflix will call it a documentary and anyone wishing to preserve history will be labeled racist. if they can steal viking history and back wash it's kings replacing northern european men with an american black feminist and activist with hollywoods and the Democratic Party full support in american and Corbinites and the Labor party in UK will yes mam the whole charade, there really is nothing they won't propagandize for woke hollywood and Disney's " THE Message". as a history buff there are few things more cringe than what's taking place currently to european history.

@@HistoryMarche Who narrates your vidoes ? I they are from the UK :) He sounds like the man who narrates vidoes for Epic History TV youtube channel

Ah, this also was of interest to me, as my relative, Sir Greene, sided with James II and the family pretty much lost everything, including 13 castles. It was all uphill for him with much gains, then downhill after the landing in England by William of Orange. Shortly thereafter, the family moved, perhaps fled, to America.

"Down with this sort of thing!"

"Careful Now"

Father Ted quotes never get old. 😂😂😂

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Incredible*

It's enthralling if you're not careful.

Damn Prince Bowden is a legend

been wanting to go to the Dublin library which inspired the harry potter universe.

@@alansokelisatruehero8520 No Arab magic books and the Middle East

Im in the north but will take the trip down. Thanks

Lervish

The royal landing a great day out 🏰🇬🇧

some americans as well as years progressed toward 1715 "the '15 uprising"

A Dutch King on the throne in England what did he bring.. did he and Mary change the political system, did they bring in the economical powerhouse of the Dutch Republic?

As a Danish history teacher, it was quite new information to me, that there were about 7000 Danish troops there. There is so many little stories, that aren't part of the curriculum, and so you'll never hear about them, unless you stumble upon them.

William was blessed by the Pope, before the battle, the Pope wanted his land back. The painting exists in N.I. of William being blessed by the Pope, ruler of the Roman empire. The guns used by William were superior, made in Switzerland.

The Dutch were almost always at war with way larger countries so they often relied on mercenaries. These mostly came out of northern Germany because they had great relations with most. That is probably were the Danish come from. The French Huguenots were probably were probably Dutch citizens by that time, but were placed in a seperate regiment because of the cultural and linguistic differences. The English, Scottish and Irish were probably just protestants or mercenaries that cared more about money than religion.

I didn't know that - thanks! Very interesting

Did you not watch the video. He was King of Ireland by conquest. In those times Kings physically led in battle.

@@Stand663 prior to the battle William was a claimant to the the throne of Ireland. After the battle he became King of Ireland by conquest. That is why there was a battle in the first place.

Wasn't James merely Lord of Ireland, not King? His big brother Charles II had given James much land there but James wasn't shrewd enough to develop it as a strong political base.

@@BallymoreBoy101 the Lordship of Ireland ceased to exist when Henry VIII had the Irish Parliament proclaim and declare him King of Ireland in 1541. From that time until 1801 when the Kingdom of Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the King of England was King of Ireland in a personal union of crowns. On succession the monarch had to be proclaimed separately in each of the realms. That was process re-enacted recently when Charles III was proclaimed separately as King in the various realms he is sovereign off. It was the same in the 1688 when James II was proclaimed king. He was then removed as King in England and Scotland (then held in a personal union of crowns like Ireland) by the Parliaments of those kingdoms when his son in law, nephew, and cousin William III, was proclaimed king instead. The lack of that happening in Ireland was why the Battle of Boyne occurred.

the bank of England was formed in 1684 to finance the war against Louis the Fourteenth's France in the Spanish war of succession.

That's exactly the message I got from the video though

He did and he then landed at Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland where there is also a statue to remember the glorious revolution.

@@trueblue3719 Awesome 😀

​@@trueblue3719yup. Got a picture with the statue there, and at Kensington Palace too.

The Irish disliked James. He was known for his cowardice.

James the shit

@@DanMac-lh7tl "The Irish?" Are you aware how few Catholic Gaels were actually in power at this point? The ones that were, such as the descendants of the Kings of Thomond, were fairly anglicized and actually very strong supporters of James, seeing him as a Milesian. The other, non-anglicized Gaelic landlord class, as well as the Catholic Old-English were firmly behind James because they thought he would reverse the English Parliament's land settlements under Cromwell.

Lervish

@@davelong9055 ¿que?

@@thomasnelson6161 Shrit

@@davelong9055 you've lost the plot, sir.

@@thomasnelson6161 I am the plot.

Valour

His horse required a rest from carrying the weight of his giant titanium balls. 😉

What is known in modern parlance as 'Absolute Shithousery'.

true brittish monarch stomping for tea while surveying the battlines

Maybe there was a cute girl with him that needed to be impressed...

This is a (bad) rewrite of history. There was no "Southern Ireland". That was only created in 1922 by partition. The 1790 rebellion was led by Northerners. The Troubles was entirely in the North. One thing I can agree with is "Englands rule". None of the usual nonsense about Britain or the UK.

@@pmurnion Whatever tension in Northern Ireland also affects the Southern/Republic of Ireland. The Brexit referendum of 2016 has caused potential problems for the myriad complexities that lie within Northern Ireland’s status, including the EU, most notably for the border. In 2022, there will be no physical border, but questions of trade and immigration could affect the border in the future for both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Throughout Brexit negotiations, EU, Irish, and UK officials all sought to avoid the return of a hard border, fearing that checkpoints could complicate trade, revive tensions between communities, and open the door to renewed violence. Between the Northern Ireland Protocol and the new Windsor Framework, many parties that align with the Catholic-led Irish (with elements inside the Republic of Ireland) still continue to question the intentions of the English. Brexit takes Northern Ireland out of the European Union and leaves the Republic of Ireland in the European Union, drawing a stark distinction and difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It defies the whole spirit of the Good Friday Agreement, the power-sharing agreement that ended the Troubles in 1998 and tended to diminish the distinctions between north and south. (many articles online obviously state that/calling the Republic of Ireland the "South" so feel free to criticize them as well:) Brexit has also activated a historical sense of betrayal on the part of the Northern Irish against Britain. One curious fact of the Northern Irish psyche that has been true for a long, long time is that while they are intensely loyal to the crown and the union with Great Britain, there’s also no love lost between the Northern Irish unionists and Great Britain: the Irish unionists always feel let down, always feel betrayed. So there’s a fear that Brexit will strand Northern Ireland on the other side of a customs border in the Irish Sea. This is the main cause of the recent surge in unionist protests in Belfast, which President Biden attended earlier this year to celebrate Good Friday & indirectly try to quell the tension in Northern Ireland. Do I think Ireland will ever be united again? Before Brexit, I would have said, “possibly yes.” There was a kind of momentum and there seemed to be a will for reunification. The strong referendum in favor of the Good Friday Agreement on both sides of the border in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic suggested that there was a political will, if not toward unification, at least toward reconciliation. There are a lot of reasons that still make me think Ireland will eventually reunite. The demographics have changed. Protestants are no longer a clear majority in Northern Ireland. It’s more evenly split, with a growing percentage of people in the north of Ireland who do not align themselves either as Protestant or Catholic, which means there’s now a pretty sizable minority that is outside of this cultural antipathy altogether. And they don’t identify with Protestant unionists, nor with Catholic nationalists. Overall, the consequences of Brexit are more fully felt. The number of people from Northern Ireland who once understood themselves as British but now travel on a passport stamped by the Irish Republic is growing.

@@SolidAvenger1290Northern Unionists only hold Irish passports as a flag of convenience to avoid queuing at EU airports. All of my family (except myself) have them and it is no measure of a growing acceptance of an inevitability of a United Ireland. In any event there is no economic argument in support of a united ireland. A bit like Scotland in that no one can tell where the money will come from if the UK pulls out of Northern Ireland. The election of a Sinn Fein government in ROI would also knock back any reconciliation between the two races who inhabit the island by 500 years.

@@SolidAvenger1290 Thanks for this write-up on the politics of Ireland and the Brexit. As an American it is hard to understand the complexities of it all. One thing I don't get that you wrote. Some Northern Irish have passports stamped by the Irish Republic? I though everyone in the EU just had an EU passport, but are they actually assigned by each individual country?

@@tomgreene7942 There's no such thing as an EU passport. Each member state of the EU issues its own passports.

I believe that the Dutch soldiers were Dragoons from William's Gard Dragonders(Dragoon Guards). The same source had the Irishmen as Colonel Roger McElligot's Regiment who had been brought over from Ireland to reinforce James' army. I believe they surrendered soon after and wounded up in Hungary, fighting for the Austrian Emperor against the Turks. Another military encounter occurred at Wincanton in Somerset. Patrick Sarsfield, commanding two troops of Cavalry from the King's Lifeguards and the Horse Grenadiers skirmished with an advanced patrol of 30 Williamite Scots from the Regiment of Hugh McKay.

@@paulkirk7120 Thats brilliant thankyou. I love knowing these kind of details.

@@alexc8209 you are most welcome.

Fortune favours the brave ...

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle Indeed

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle , he wasn’t brave , he was a fat imposter.

Much prefer to see a video on Yellow Ford .. the Irish Cannae .. complete destruction of the English army in Ireland ..

I'm a Protestant in County Londonderry and we learned it in school. Perhaps you should've went to a better school.

What school did you go to?

@@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn Well you didn't learn grammar. it's LEARNT, not learned.

@@captainchaos3053 It was in Belfast. We weren't taught about the Battle of the Boyne because it may heighten tensions outside. We lived near an interface.

@@willfoster2635 OK but what era are we talking because this is not specifically Irish history and had profound effect across Europe.

I'm from Lisburn, the street I grew up on is called huegenot drive

It's quite common for non-Catholics like Jews and Protestants to have travelled to the Netherlands stay there for 1-2 generation and than travel to Ireland or Engeland. Stay there for 3-5 generations and travel from there to the New World. This started around ~1300 until like ~1950. (Ofcourse in the earlier times they would they much longer before travelling to America)

I suggest you start your search among rhe survivors

Who knows? You may have distant relations in South Africa, too. It was another major destination for French Protestants.

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Indeed, but it is shorthand to refer to him as Tyrconnell in the same way that Archibald Campell, Earl of Argyll would be known simply as Argyll or John Churchill Earl of Marlborough as Marlborough.

It *was* a title, too.

@@jamesschaller753 he's right about everything (except Tyrconnel was indeed a title named for the place) so what are you dubious about?

That may be what James II promised, but by 1688 his word was worth less than the air on which it was propelled.

@markchambers3833 Yes that was sort of what I was getting at. The idea that all irish catholic supported him isn't true and many were apathetic to an English king outright

That not the English flag mate

that was not early stages of world competition between France and England. It was a battle between forces supported by the House of Bourbon and the House of Hapsburgs. Both Catholics. William was also supported by the Papal states and Pope. England was just a playing field for the bigger European states in that battle.

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and there was me thinking that the recent Civil War and disposal of treasonous Charles I had fatally weakened pretensions to royal absolutism!

@@BallymoreBoy101Think you find that Charles II was able to dissolve parliament in 1679, 1680 and 1681 and ended up ruling on his own until his death in 1685. Due to refusing to allow Parliament to pass the exclusion bill that would have prevented his brother and heir James from succeeding him on the throne in favour of a protestant heir. While at times throughout his reign, he and Parliament butted heads over laws, policy and financial matters. His successor James II, would go much further in terms of trying to rule by in affect an absolutism style of government, backed up by an massively increased military and reintroducing Catholicism, threatening the very foundations of the Hybrid Absolute/Constitutional monarchy and protestant faith that underpinned it, that led to the glorious revolution.

There's many books of recorded history of Ireland. You haven't made the choice to go check em out.

@@prestons9305 Many books and contemporary focus are two different things, mate

Check out books by Jonathan Bardon. Very informative.

@@curlywurly1767 Noice! I will

​@@mercianthane2503well, fhere is always Tristan and Isolde...