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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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"Child's book is especially noteworthy in that naval operations during this war are examined thoroughly, and he is good on the battlefield tactic of the contestants. Off the battlefield, Childs is adept at unravelling the command rivalries that undermined the Jacobite war effort...In his preface, Childs writes modestly that 'an Englishman coming late in his career to the history of Ireland is constantly aware of his ignorance': but his concerns are misplaced, for he easily sails over the hurdles."The International History Review, September 2009

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "There is much to commend in Child's work...a lively writingstyle with occasional flashes of humor and a high-spirited gleeful delight inthe trivial. The general reader and the military historian can dip into thisbook with profit."
The Historian, 2010

"Child’s book is especially noteworthy in that naval operations during this war are examined thoroughly, and he is good on the battlefield tactic of the contestants. Off the battlefield, Childs is adept at unravelling the command rivalries that undermined the Jacobite war effort...In his preface, Childs writes modestly that 'an Englishman coming late in his career to the history of Ireland is constantly aware of his ignorance’: but his concerns are misplaced, for he easily sails over the hurdles."The International History Review, September 2009

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "There is much to commend in Child’s work...a lively writingstyle with occasional flashes of humor and a high-spirited gleeful delight inthe trivial. The general reader and the military historian can dip into thisbook with profit."
The Historian, 2010

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  • PublisherBloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1852855738
  • ISBN 13 9781852855734
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages440
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