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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
...law, James II, as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. James II fled England for France, and then landed in Ireland in March 1689, hoping to regain his lost throne. The two kings confronted each other at the Battle of the Boyne, a key battle during the 1689–91 Williamite-Jacobite war in Ireland. Jacobite forces in Ireland ultimately surrendered, and James II went...