The comprehensive defeat of the Jacobite Irish in the Williamite conflict, a component within the panEuropean 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 seventeenthcentury, 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.

Binding: Hardcover;466 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 946.9 g; Dimensions: N/A

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