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

I am still shaking from that battle.

And the cry was "no surrender"!

Tarihsel olaylar, bu şekilde anlatıldığında çok daha ilgi çekici bir hal alıyor. Teşekkürler.

excellent video.

Or, as us Americans would say, two prissy boys slapping each other with their hankies. Who cares?

When Britain sneezes, Ireland catches tuberculosis.

Brilliant

Dutchies on 11.04.1689: HAH GEKOLONISEERD

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growing up for seventy years listening to all the drama and death going on between Ireland and England the more I binge watch these videos the more I realize this has been going on for centuries.

The title is a complete mess, the power in europe, and actually in the world in these time, before and some time after belonged to Spain, and Spain is not here. So no, the balance of power didnt change after this battle, Spain kept rulling almost the whole damn planet after this battle, before this battle and during this battle. The title is wrong.

A fascinating period the ripple of which are still being felt in the British Isles to this day.

this is a large part in irleand history the willimite wars

I didn't know about this episode, but I find it hard to understand why Louis XIV and Tyrconnel didn't help him when William of Orange invaded, rather than wait until he was weakened, without troops or land. I imagine that if they had been united from the outset, repelling the invasion would have been relatively easy.

Destroyed ireland

- Was a Beggining of The Irish Tragedy...~😢🇮🇪💥

Forgot to mention that both sides had protestants and catholics. James army had a huge number of press ganged peasants not soldiers. William was supported by the pope and papal states, not James. This was an extension of an historical fight between the house of Bourbon and the house of Hapsburg. So once again royals causing deaths and destruction to line their own pockets. The fat greedy parasites in England simply wanted to keep their elevated positions so they supported William. Williams army was made up of actual soldiers most of whom came from Europe. His english contingent was much less than half of his army and he did not trust them to be loyal. So he used the European troops more. A really, tiny portion of William's army was the bigoted protestants from Northern Ireland, who later created something that was a fairy tale. The Irish peasants did not want to be involved and considered James as a coward, which he proved to them by running away. So in the bigger picture it was Catholics versus Catholics in Europe who used a minor Protestant king supported by the Papal States and Hapsburgs. And the Catholic Bourbons supporting a minor Catholic king. The location just happened to be in Ireland. For many years after that battle the bigots from Northern Ireland made up their own story, and through ignorance and stupidity, play, "we are besieged", games.

Some battles which really changed the future of Europe at about the same time: The siege and battle of Vienna 1683, removing the aggressive ottoman army from central Europe. And the battle of Zenta 1697, securing central Europe from future ottoman aggression. Compared to these contests which were about Europes survival as the Christian sphere of the world your battle in Ireland was a minor contest somewhere in the outskirts.

But how the BALANCE OF POWER was chainged by this... still unclear. But for one who knows a bit of history: this was a set back of the French position in the European "theatre". England now belonged firmly in the protestant camp. Together with several German states, Denmark, Sweden etc.

My wife and I regularly re-enact this battle. With my superior weaponry I penatrate her well defended position. But we call it the battle of the boink. 😁😁

very good!

Thanks!

Big up King William III, no surrender 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Even though the number of troops on both sides was large, the number of losses were small.

nice job

James was a coward it would seem

Thanks for all your hard work. Great content, as ever!. I find the campaign in Ireland very interesting. More please..

gets hit by cannon ball -William: ah tis but a scratch

I'm so sick of narrators and filmmakers who are too lazy to check their pronunciation of certain words and place names - "Salisbury" was a glaring one here, especially for an English speaker and, from the sound of him, an Englishman. The following butchery of various Irish place names is hardly less forgivable and as for " Huguenot" wherein the narrator seems to have elected to add an additional "r" before the final "t" it's just further confirmation of the poor script editing and recording.

In the age of the internet, typing a word into any search engine, followed by the word "pronunciation" isn't exactly difficult or even hard work is it?

Then I hear the narrator say: "......had already began........." instead of "had already begun" and it just further destroys the credibility of writers, narrator and editor(s). Very sloppy indeed.

they should sign the documents that make a united Ireland official at the site of the boyne battle, imagine the loyalist reaction 😂

Voltaire once commented the Irish are strange in that they make such good soldiers when abroad but had such poor success at home.

that was really good, ta

jäjäh xxxP

Cool show,I've been there few times,very cool

James was a coward

If King James won Republic of Ireland would still be British but unfortunately bigoted British Protestants won and now they they threw it all alway with Brexit and Sinn Féin may ne getting thier 32 county Irish Republic 😂

Curious to know why wasn't this war, unlike the other wars of succession, turn into multi-national war?

No no, that's not the same brother James as the one in the sonic youth song, no ...

Nothing like a nice war for religion again

it's surprising how the British see themselves at the center of European power when their history is only a summary of alliances acquired then denounced and returned as quickly as one changes clothes as soon as the wind turns. At the slightest difficulty they have always done nothing but take refuge on their island! power has always been continental, it is in the continental mélée of nations that we see those who have made history, life is tougher there, on their islands the British were only attacked by flights of sparrows lol.

During his reign of England he was also Stadhouder of the Dutch Republic en thus both nations were kind of united by the same monarch. For example Gibraltar was conquered by English and Dutch marines i believe in 1704...

we gather again to witness little squares beat the absolute carnage out of each other

Very interesting.

great content as always

Excellent work!

Polarizing figure in Dutch history too. Drained the Dutch treasury to complete exhaustion for these excursions that had doubtful added value for the Netherlands.