The Battle Of The Boyne 1690 - Why Is It Celebrated?

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The Battle of the Boyne 1690, Ireland.
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Every year on the 12th July, Northern Ireland’s loyalist, protestant community celebrate the battle of the Boyne.
A battle fought in 1690 between 2 kings involving nearly 60,000 troops, on the banks of a river in Ireland.
One representing Irish Catholic hopes and the other, representing Protestant aspirations.
But what actually happened at the Battle of the Boyne,?
And why were they fighting at all?
Following a recent poll here on KZfaq, I know that it is a question that many of you are keen to find out about.
So, It’s time to explore the battle that still shapes Ireland to this day.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Story Begins
1:09 Protestant hopes & fears
2:58 The Glorious Revolution
4:28 Ireland
6:38 International Dimension
8:00 The Siege of Londonderry
9:34 Tide Turns
11:19 William takes charge
12:08 The Armies
15:04 Battle of the Boyne begins
16:14 James makes a mistake
17:22 William attacks
19:24 Jacobite cavalry
20:35 William crosses the Boyne
21:12 End of the battle
23:41 Battle of the Boyne celebrations
24:56 Jacobites
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@wardaddyindustries4348 8 күн бұрын

The face of that horse is hilarious! Great painting.

@staffofdagda6238 Ай бұрын

A stunning well made video, one of the best channels on the internet.All our kids should see this channel.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@ProfessorM-he9rl 29 күн бұрын

Thank you for this post, much appreciated.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@richardbradley2802 28 күн бұрын

An excellent video as always! Thank you!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@brendanmallon1479 6 сағат бұрын

Fantastic as always ❤

@FranciscoPreira 29 күн бұрын

Another great video, thank you for sharing.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

@pjmichaelsrocksyou 28 күн бұрын

Great video!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@harryshriver6223 29 күн бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this story, it always amazes me how all of these groups which are closely linked do not get along at all, they always seem to be in dispute about something. I guess I cannot talk because of the state of our country. I really enjoy learning more about British history especially the parts I know so little about, well done, friend. Feliz cuatro del julio tambien!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@marklinnane1744 29 күн бұрын

Great video. Have been to the battle site a few times. Only about 15 miles from where I live here in County Meath.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@williamcreighton1417 27 күн бұрын

Love this. Thank you very much

@TheHistoryChap 26 күн бұрын

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@bagpusslxv4858 29 күн бұрын

You make history so accessible 👌

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@jonathandunseath741 4 күн бұрын

This was excellent. Thank you.

@lindawilliams4933 3 күн бұрын

Nice flag

@markporter-thechurchhistor6784 16 күн бұрын

Excellent video and very well presented 👍

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@ArmenianBishop 20 күн бұрын

I Didn't know about that battle. Thanks so much!

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching

@garymcgahan9089 16 күн бұрын

You should come to northern Ireland then every year the protestant community to this day try to march up and down Catholic streets singing victory songs and playing flutes and banging drums and chsntting hate fulfilled anti Catholic songs....the only way to explain it is the KKK walking up and down the streets of harlem.and is still going on today.

@ShamFraeTheToon 22 күн бұрын

Very well explained, well done.

@TheHistoryChap 22 күн бұрын

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@TimFenton-dx4xe 27 күн бұрын

Very interesting as usual 🎉🎉🎉

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@paulbennett772 29 күн бұрын

Good analysis of the battle & its consequences

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@Thurnmourer 28 күн бұрын

While not Boyne related, when I went on holiday last year to Torquay and then did a day trip to Brixham, I was rather surprised by how involved it was with William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution.

@TheHistoryChap 26 күн бұрын

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@jimmurray9032 24 күн бұрын

A small number of Dutch ships had sailed up the Thames. Rover not many years b4 and destroyed a large number of British ships. They failed to stop them getting away. And then not many years after the Dutch. King is on the throne of England. He did this unipped. A great revolution or a coup delay. It's for u to decide what it was

@markdavidson9743 21 күн бұрын

Didn't know that. Wonder why that is. Interested to know more

@stephenpegum9776 Ай бұрын

Fascinating stuff as always Chris - many thanks for your usual detailed explanation.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek 29 күн бұрын

Fascinating!!!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@davidcoleman757 20 күн бұрын

I can't lie, I find this the most head-spinning period of English history. Thanks for setting the background to the battle; the context really helped with what followed.

@Valhalla88888 20 күн бұрын

you forget it was Scottish history as the English kings got wiped out in 1066 by the Normans

@Valhalla88888 20 күн бұрын

House of Stuart took over in 1603 under King James 6th of Scotland not sure why English Historians always say James 1st or Charles 2nd of England James 6th was already King of Scotland and took the English crown in 1603 and Charles 2nd was already King of Scotland!!!

@keithwills3790 20 күн бұрын

Also Elizabeth ll of England should be referred to as the 1st of Scotland.

@emcc8598 19 күн бұрын

@@Valhalla88888there were were no pureblooded "English in 1066. The Kingdom of England was variously inhabited by a hodgepodge of the descendants of Britons Angles Saxons Freisans Jutes and Danes. The various kings of that Kingdom were of mixed ancestry including a bunch of Danish kings. With the English language only later eclvolving from various germanic dialects having little if any similarities to the English language spoken today which has evolved from Anglisc Norman French Latin and who knows what else

@TheHistoryChap 18 күн бұрын

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@geraintthatcher3076 Ай бұрын

Great video and you're right its fascinating. Will you be covering the Battle of Aughrim too ?

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Yes I will. Watch this space!

@geraintthatcher3076 Ай бұрын

@TheHistoryChap looking foward to it :)

@fra1916 22 күн бұрын

Will you be covering the battle of the bogside @TheHistoryChap

@MrJeremyWeeks Ай бұрын

We all know who won-as Simon Schama said- “No one”.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Seems like a good viewpoint.

@peteyankee3658 16 күн бұрын

an eye for an eye left everyone blind

@scottp9048 29 күн бұрын

Another excellent factual account Chris, keep up the good work !!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@kaoskronostyche9939 Ай бұрын

Another great story well told. Thank you.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@derekfoster7115 29 күн бұрын

Brilliant 😊

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@robbiemcc4355 28 күн бұрын

Fascinating well done ✌

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@Alfonzridesagain Ай бұрын

You're a brave man for covering this one Chris - and for insisting on 'Londonderry' as well! Great work bringing out the political and dynastic aspects of this conflict - it wasn't just sectarian and was quite complicated in some ways as you rightly say. Appreciate that the video was already quite long but it's hard to really make sense of Irish history without making clear that the Irish Protestant population were and are almost entirely settlers from Scotland and England deliberately planted there to displace the Gaelic (and Catholic) natives. This wasn't an intra-Irish argument about religious doctrine, it was a war of conquest and colonisation, and the plantation was only a few generations old in 1690 as well.

@johndorney7812 28 күн бұрын

Quite poor on the Irish context all right. Needs to mention the Ulster Plantation, 1641 rebellion and subsequent wars, Cromwellian Plantation and Restoration in Ireland. At a minimum.

@awedgewood 25 күн бұрын

It's already 25 mins long. You'd need a Ridley Scott epic to keep everyone happy.

@janice506 24 күн бұрын

My great gran brought my gran & all her brood to Scotland from Ireland way back , later my gran married & had my dad who in turn met & married my mum resulting in me & my siblings . I did a DNA no surprises that it came back very Celtic with : 83% Irish Scottish Welsh 11.4 % South Italian & Greek 5.6 % Baltic. I’m very proud of my roots both in Scotland & Ireland. Interestingly my son had English DNA from a grandparent he’s also extremely happy about .

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@Britishempire-hv6rb 22 күн бұрын

Well it is Londonderry 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@jamesgarman4788 29 күн бұрын

Another great video Chris! Would love to see you cover the American Revolution from the British perspective.

@TheHistoryChap 22 күн бұрын

Yes, this is on the cards, especially as we are approaching the 25th anniversay

@tonypetts6663 29 күн бұрын

The battle of Beachy Head would be good to know about as you've now brought it to our attention 😁

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching & your comment which I will add to my ever growing list.

@williammoorhead3767 29 күн бұрын

Great video and very well timed. Having grew up in a Protestant house hold in Ulster, this video sums it up really well. Looking forward to the Sir George White VC video.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@maxreed2343 Ай бұрын

Well once again, you wow me so much as always with a history lesson I had absolutely no clue as to the existence of until you announced it as today's update, Chris old bean, and that includes all the other historical facts you mentioned in this one also, including that of the Glorious Revolution, which was the reason the Catholic devotee James II was overthrown in the first place. Seriously, just HOW d'ya keep this up every time, huh, always furthering your well deserved status as a KZfaq superstar when it comes to delivering some of the undeniably best ever IMO British military history, cos every time you announce what's to come you deliver something my school history lessons never covered, hence I've had to rely on you and of course online reading itself to deliver the incredible facts about whatever into my head, hahaha. So, what's next then from ya, I wonder? Could we at last FINALLY be a step closer to at last having the Battle of Sedgemoor in a video coverage, considering that it was cos of James II's Catholic devotion in a Protestant England that his own nephew the Duke of Monmouth attempted to lead a rebellion against him in 1685, but which all came to a head, and disaster for Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, and as well as James himself Colonel Percy Kirke was another big significant figure of the Monmouth Rebellion, certainly during the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor in particular with him, Kirke that is. But whatever ya do, we'll always be awaiting ya to astound and surprise us all, Chris old bean, and certainly the Jacobites, again a topic I'm practically lacking ANY knowledge of myself personally, would be a topic to cover indeed, yes, siree

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@andysvehiclehistorychannel 5 күн бұрын

Very interesting Chris so they arrived on my birthday and I certainly did not expect for one of his man to almost kill him

@carlekdahl7507 Ай бұрын

Excellent as usual 👌. Are the Emin Pasha and the battle of Um Diwaykarat on your list in the near future to wrap up the Sudan campaigns?

@TheHistoryChap 23 күн бұрын

Yes, but not in the immediate future

@leggie65 29 күн бұрын

Will be out on Saturday in Glasgow celebrating on the streets then over to Belfast for the big one ,loved the intro Chris 😅. The comments will be interesting on this .

@Aragorn62 25 күн бұрын

Was over from Belfast did the Glasgow walk and all to do again on the 12th. Love it 😍

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@markdavidson9743 21 күн бұрын

WATP

@Wandle_WIM Ай бұрын

Hello Chris, Great video as always. How telling the story of Hassan's Dervish insurgency into British Somaliland in 1920?

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching my video, will add your suggestion to my ever growing list.

@stanboyd5820 29 күн бұрын

A right good stab at the battle and the story surrounding it. While Aughrim was indeed the coup de grace, when James fled Ireland after the Boyne the gig was up. True the Julian - Gregorian calendar shift has muddied things, I think the Boyne settled things dynastically. Whichever you choose, Julian or Gregorian, Boyne or Aughrim, they settled the modern constitution of the United Kingdom . In any case, 'Boyne' lends itself better to the many songs sung in the North to celebrate the battles.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@alicemilne1444 18 күн бұрын

Neither of those battles settled the modern constitution of the United Kingdom.

@graememckay9972 8 күн бұрын

I grew up in Central Scotland. I was aware of King Billy, The Boyne, catholic v protestant, Glasgow rangers v Celtic, orange Lodge and orange walks. No one could ever tell me what it was all about. It was generational hatred with no real knowledge. The same people who supported Rangers, were orange Lodge, waved red hand of ulster flags were often celebrating the jacobites fighting the English. I mentioned King Billy to Dutch friends when I was trying to explain the division of catholic and protestants. Their response was shock "Our King William, from Holland, he was involved in Ireland? We didn't know. AND PEOPLE STILL CELEBRATE A WAR HE LEAD NOW?" This is the first time I've heard the story of what happened and it makes the division and hatred sound so stupid.

@TheHistoryChap 8 күн бұрын

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@georgerichardson7728 Күн бұрын

What have a football team got to do with this? You sound like a Celtic fan...lol

@TheScaryTruthCatalyst 28 күн бұрын

This battle is engrained in the local mind-set so much where I live, that some people revere certain random locations where William of Orange reputedly camped for a night or briefly visited on his way to the Boyne...

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@TheScaryTruthCatalyst 24 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Your content is amongst the best on KZfaq. 👍

@kennydalglish8072 29 күн бұрын

I'm recommending this video all around. Well done mr. Green!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@FortyTwo6x7 25 күн бұрын

Excellent well balanced coverage of the subject. That makes a change so thank you

@TheHistoryChap 25 күн бұрын

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@FortyTwo6x7 25 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap I grew up in Belfast, I was one of those "string boys" you see in the Orange Order parades holding the string to the bannor. I obviously was very well aware of the Williamite Wars in Ireland and how it shaped what would become The United Kingdom. The bit you did really well was to put this battle into context as to how the Crown would have continued with absolute rule and destablised the country with the death of every Monrach that is even being forgotten in the oral history tradition in my community.

@catholicmilitantUSA 22 күн бұрын

Well done Chris! Since you asked fans what we'd like to see, I'll be hones but I've never seen many documentaries about the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars outside the battle of the Nile. There's my native Malta which featured in a campaign 1798-1800 and then an Italian campaign (with, I believe, a regiment of Maltese troops seeing action at Capri in 1807). Malta also featured somewhat importantly as a "supermarket" for British goods during the Continental Blockade; and perhaps the huge amount of activity and shipping is what brought us the final (and terrible) plague outbreak in 1813-14. I'm also really interested in WW1 and the British contribution especially to the Hundred Days, but also the lesser-known Palestine, Mesopotamian, East African and Western Desert theatres.

@TheHistoryChap 22 күн бұрын

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@Carol-pn5wq 20 күн бұрын

It also takes place in the west of Scotland

@TheHistoryChap 18 күн бұрын

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@malachytully5469 13 күн бұрын

You celebrate the defeat of a Scottish King Jame's?

@georgerichardson7728 Күн бұрын

and the East, and in Fife

@nathanappleby5342 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for telling this story. I had absolutely no idea. I have long known of the historical conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland but did not know of this battle. This battle is one of the many reasons the practice of both Christian faiths must be tolerated for the sake of getting along.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@richardmarahall8943 28 күн бұрын

Chris, as usual im not going to make any suggestions as to what subject i would like you to teach me about. I did manage to scrape an o level but didnt actually love the subject until my early forties when i ( occasionaly put jack higgins, wilbur smith and tom sharpe down and got back into non lit books) and then came u tube. You pick the subject and i will always watch. If you ever explained the role of the fleet air arm in korea then i would be personally very interested as my father flew fireflys of hms glory in that conflict. I love reading your viewers comments as some of them are from folks with far more knowledge than me and i love it when they challenge you! If you were my history teacher 45 years ago i believe i would have chosen history as an A level.... still contemplating taking an online history a level at the age of 60 because of you and drachinefel ❤

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@QALibrary Ай бұрын

having worked in Northern Ireland I have first-hand experience of the fun and games that goes with the 12 of July

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Never sure quite what to make of it if I was there. Probably depends who I was staying with.

@vinnyganzano1930 Ай бұрын

Try being a soldier posted there😉

@Pete9Tails 27 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChappeople die around this subject still, show at least some recognition of the nature of this problem. Playing the sash marks you as a participant not an observer. It's not just history, it's very real and very now for thousands of people.

@petercunningham5640 24 күн бұрын

The battle of benburb June 5th 1646

@greenslider 21 күн бұрын

My sister married into a northern Catholic family. The vitriol and hatred, from both sides, even in the policing and security around a gaelic football game, shocked her. Literally, when in Rome...

@ciarandoyle4349 29 күн бұрын

A great re-telling of an old story! Battles and campaigns in Ireland are like the paragraphs of an endless unpunctuated chronicle. The great punctuation marks of Aughrim and the Boyne seemed in 1691 and 90 to be full stops, after which Ireland was to be forever Anglo-Scots and Protestant. But they were mere commas in the story. Many paragraphs, and 230 years later, the fields where these battles were fought reverted to Irish control.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@desmondmurray5160 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for making the distinction that James was was the VIIth of Scotland. When the Queen died in 2022 there were some on social media getting angry that many Scots referred to her as Queen Elizabeth and not Elizabeth II as she was in England. What's good for the goose...

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@stanleyward4485 29 күн бұрын

There is very little information on the internet about the East Africa campaign during the second world war. So many colonial troops from all over the empire contrbuted to the British victory over the Italins. It would be great if you would do a few episodes about this neglected campaign. I enjoy all your work very much well done.

@TheHistoryChap 22 күн бұрын

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@mademan7641 29 күн бұрын

Another classic, as always, though I am an American, I can never get enough of British history. Thank you for the English language and all that you've done for the world!!!!

@kennethknoppik5408 29 күн бұрын

Same here

@eamonnclabby7067 28 күн бұрын

Happy 4th of July...😊😊😊

@jimmurray9032 24 күн бұрын

Twenty years or. So b4. The Dutch ha. Won a marritme war against the British. Forgive. Me for saying this that. The ditch king on the British tone lookore like a coup. Delat. Than a revolution from my reading of the history.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@Breas-md6hc 23 күн бұрын

Irish and British history???

@StevenKeery 29 күн бұрын

Perhaps I am mistaken. I thought you had made a video on this piece of history before. William's victory marked the end of autocratic rule of Kings in Britain. It would have been interesting if you had discussed more of the political changes the Glorious Revolution brought about with the Bill of Rights in 1689, one of the landmarks in our Constitution. Best wishes, it is a fascinating story, as is the growth of the Orange Order.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@Castlelong333 22 күн бұрын

If you were Catholic living in the UK their was no bill of rights , no rights what do ever , in Ireland they where called the penal laws , priests were hunted down, the majority in Ireland who were Catholic, were not allowed to practice their faith, that is why there are Mass rocks all over Ireland, also Catholics has to paid a tax to the state Protestant church of Ireland, Catholics were the majority in Ireland but only owned about 3% of the land , the rest were basically slaves to the Protestant land class , who were in most cases planted in Ireland , so there was no glorious revolution, only pure tyranny, for Catholics in their own lands

@ianbanks2844 28 күн бұрын

Good .

@TheHistoryChap 26 күн бұрын

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@jonthinks6238 Ай бұрын

I would like to see more of the jacobites. Don't know if you have enough supporters in North America but the French and Indian war is very interesting. Would like to see more of those British units in America.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@HarryWHill-GA 29 күн бұрын

Chris, My historical knowledge of the Pike and Shot period is woefully thin. My personal family history was already firmly in America by this time. A member of my family has participated in every American conflict since (for us) Queen Anne's war. Anything dealing with Randolph Churchill would be wonderful.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@charliemanson4808 Ай бұрын

Its been a long while since ive heard the true story of the battle of the Boyne. I never knew about the calander change on the dates though. Growing up on the West Coast of Scotland in the 70's being the only non-catholic at a catholic school (thanks stepdad) i was very aware of the dates but kept my mouth shut!!

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@jasoncornell1579 Ай бұрын

A friend who grew up in northern Ireland once told me that before the troubles the glorious 12th was a time for both communities to celebrate as well it might be the Boyne happening where and when it did probably prevented a new civil war God Bless Ireland it probably prevented the whole British Isles from once more being drowned in blood

@dowdallerno1 24 күн бұрын

No, it was always a sectarian hate fest.

@rickc8865 24 күн бұрын

@@dowdallerno1Rubbish.

@dowdallerno1 24 күн бұрын

@@rickc8865 look it up, if you don't believe me, always trouble around the 12th since time immemorial. You ever hear of Dolly's Brae??😂😂😂

@rickc8865 24 күн бұрын

@@dowdallerno1 Have you ever lived in NI? I have and I can remember all sides out watching the parades. Never any problems. Is Dolly’s Brae all you have?

@dowdallerno1 24 күн бұрын

@@rickc8865 I have lived and worked in the North. And I know most normal people, fuck off for the 12th, because they can't be dealing with the bollocks around it. 😉

@alexsexton469 9 күн бұрын

Hi Chris. Will you be doing any vids on the ww1 German colonies campaigns?

@TheHistoryChap 9 күн бұрын

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@rangerista3933 28 күн бұрын

A nice musical start to the video 😄 When Marshal Schomberg spied the French troops in the Jacobite army, he turned to his Huguenot soldiers whilst pointing at the Frenchmen and said, "Gentleman, there are your oppressors!". Marshal Schomberg is still remembered and honoured to this day by the Unionist community of Northern Ireland.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@JohnnyWeissmuller-iw4pl 24 күн бұрын

The Irish nationalist community in the North of Ireland don't have to look so far back in history or too far in distance to recognise their oppressors.

@patrickporter1864 23 күн бұрын

It's funny then that the protestant orange men were the oppressor in northern Ireland.

@emcc8598 19 күн бұрын

@duncanstirling5206and wtf had any of that got to do with Ireland or the Irish people other than Ireland was used once again as a theatre for the English Crowns political ambitions

@emcc8598 13 күн бұрын

@malachytully5469 Ah OK lol I see

@josephblack2954 7 күн бұрын

"It was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne"

@tomtaylor6163 29 күн бұрын

Wow that was great Chris. This part of British History has always confused me. I still say the last Great King was Alfred the Great!

@sheronasims6783 27 күн бұрын

James iv. Died fighting in tbe front rank of his men. Unlike queer English kings

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@wacojones8062 29 күн бұрын

Some of my distant ancestors were in the north of Ireland before moving to what became Scotland. Best information was they were Danish Vikings.

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@johngreen-sk4yk 25 күн бұрын

Revolution House the old Cock & Pynot alehouse where the Glorious Revolution was hatched, is only a few minutes walk from where I live in Chesterfield Uk . A very interesting presentation as per 🙂👍

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@steverosario5962 28 күн бұрын

Please do a history of the Malayan emergency!

@TheHistoryChap 22 күн бұрын

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@philipconnolly748 17 күн бұрын

Thanks for posting. The glorious revolution was really a blatant userpation. One small correction if l may. The name Tyrconnell isn't pronounced Tie connell, it is pronounced Teer connell, probably from the Gaelic "Tír" meaning land (as in "Connell Land")

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@garybrockwell2031 Ай бұрын

Thanks, FANTASTIC AGAIN.🙏🇬🇧 GOD BLESS FELLA🥇😇🎬

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@janlindtner305 Ай бұрын

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@awedgewood 25 күн бұрын

I'd be interested in a video on Operation Mana, the RAF airlift to Holland in 1945.

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@anilmanepalli6029 Ай бұрын

Wow, can you make a video on the battle of culloden, it a famous battle that made Bonnie prince Charles to be defeated

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

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@inout3513 20 күн бұрын

Would love to hear about the fraser/Frazer clans of Scotland

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@Splodge542 25 күн бұрын

It's a very interesting campaign. Also a civil war I think within Ireland itself although it's themes are not linked to those of the English Civil War. And yet they appear similar to me.

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@billevans7936 Ай бұрын

It's a great story...thank you..maybe back to the days of King Arthur ...but whatever...I'm learning

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@Augh98-nt2zn 29 күн бұрын

There are factions on both sides that benefit from keeping the hatred alive. Both governments are very happy to keep it going too especially since brexit. Divide and conquer. The Battle of the Boyne museum near Drogheda here in the south is a really great place to visit. I have met more than a few Protestants, English and even a Dutch couple walking the grounds and their reason for being there is always for historical interest. Never politics.

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@Mugdorna 19 күн бұрын

Drogheda is quite distanced from the Troubles to be able to leave politics out of it.

@shaungillingham4689 28 күн бұрын

Excellent presentation of a difficult history. Helps in the present to better understand sectarianism, especially the origins.

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@mike_oxlong4387 29 күн бұрын

Brilliant as always, im going up to NI to celebrate the twelth and to remember these battles this year 🇬🇧

@dessy-cs9ws 24 күн бұрын

Aren't you brave?

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@billlecky7964 23 күн бұрын

And not before time

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@Carolinel673 20 күн бұрын

TICK TOCK the lease is running out as if the English want the IRISH ☘️ 🇮🇪. I’m sorry & ASHAMED that the Scottish kissed English A$$ & STOLE your land you won’t find my SURNAME among the TRAITOR /S /SETTLERS. Thank’s to my Irish ☘️ mammy I hold an Irish ☘️ passport. RIP MAMMY I will see 32 countries & think of you .

@formwiz7096 Ай бұрын

It not only shapes Ireland, but also America. A lot of WASPs still resent the Catholics, particularly the Irish; they're just blocked by the First Amendment.

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@ThaiTastic 23 күн бұрын

Happy Battle of the Boyne for tomorrow 12th July.

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@FionanOMurchadha 16 күн бұрын

The Battle in the modern calendar was 11 July

@stephenremnant8151 29 күн бұрын

Technically isn't it England, Scotland and Wales? Great video btw.

@TheHistoryChap 23 күн бұрын

No, technically Wales was considered part of the English crown.

@Johnny-Thunder 29 күн бұрын

Recently I had a bit of an odd discussion with an Englishman on Facebook: he talked about the 'Dutch invasion'. I (as a Netherlander) said to him that I wasn't aware the Netherlands ever invaded England: my history book said (just like History Chap) that the English wanted Mary II to be queen and so they got her husband Willem III van Oranje as part of the deal. But he insisted that we invaded the place and 'put our guy on the throne'. I didn't know what to say. The only explanation I can think of why the guy would think of it that way if he is a staunch catholic...

@leggie65 25 күн бұрын

@@Johnny-Thunder I'm from Glasgow mate every house including my own has a framed picture of William Prince of Orange crossing the boyne ,I cannot comment for Catholics 😂, my football team in glasgow the fans sings songs in praise of King William they have done for over 100 years,it goes from generation to generation, during ww1 the 36th Ulster division went over the top at the somme on July 1st wearing orange sashes .

@Johnny-Thunder 24 күн бұрын

@@leggie65 Well I am very much flattered :D Seeing as the Scots and English were helping the Netherlanders during our war of independence against Spain it is only right we did a favour in return.

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@Valhalla88888 20 күн бұрын

Mary was from the House of Stuart - A Scottish Family).

@duffermod1 20 күн бұрын

Ps thanks for trying to educate people 👌

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@timmurphy7384 6 күн бұрын

Chris how about the battle of Shaiba and the siege at Kut in the Mesopotamian campaign in WW I?

@eamonnclabby7067 28 күн бұрын

Live and let live I say...native of Limavady now an adopted son of Birkenhead....my family have fought for the crown stretching back to the Regiment of foot ( O,Cahan) ,led by the Marquis of Montrose..and of course there is the Rebel branch of the family...I have a brother in law who used to play in an Orange Lodge band....I,m not bad on the Bhodran....😅😅😅

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@eamonnclabby7067 24 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChapslainte/cheers....go England tonight...from the birthplace of England....Wirral...Brunanburh/Bromborough to be precise...😅😅..E

@jbmckean 3 сағат бұрын

No Surrender.

@user-ki8mh6fv3m 25 күн бұрын

If the Dutch defeat England in the euros ,it will be celebrated as an English win over the irish

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@eamonxofarrell 18 күн бұрын

In Ireland and The Netherlands we refer to it as the Dutch conquest of England. Of course it is still illegal for the British monarch, or his spouse to be a Catholic.

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@colinwithey6792 29 күн бұрын

William sailed from here on the wirral at hoylake with his army camped all the way to meols we have a road called the kings gap

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@brucemurray9127 29 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Please do Culloden! My regiment 27th Foot were there but where in the rear forming the third government line. We had disgraced ourselves at Falkirk earlier in the campaign and Billy Cumberland was none to pleased with Blakeneys Regiment! My Murray ancestors fought on the other side with the Prince in Lord George Murray’s Athol Brigade.

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@johnomahony5241 16 күн бұрын

😮Michael Tsarion, a Northern Irish person with Indian heritage has an entirely different perspective on all this.

@TheHistoryChap 16 күн бұрын

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@johnmilligan1034 20 күн бұрын

I thought Tyrconnell (Tirconnell) was pronounced “cheer-Connell) not “tyre-Connell”.

@TheHistoryChap 19 күн бұрын

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@brodeous 20 күн бұрын

Can you tell the story of John Paul Jones from the British view?

@Valhalla88888 20 күн бұрын

He was a Scotsman not an American

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@QALibrary Ай бұрын

Chris - I would highly recommend a visit to Londonderry it is a fabulous city in its own right and has a great history museum but I have been told the walking history tours are a must as well.

@TheHistoryChap Ай бұрын

Have only been to Belfast, which was both a great city and an eye opener at the same time.

@johnsometimeswrong8742 Ай бұрын

When your Derry make sure to call it Londonderry loudly and proudly in front of the locals...😂😂

@OldFirm Ай бұрын

Londonderry all day long 🇬🇧💪

@johnsometimeswrong8742 Ай бұрын

@@OldFirm You should visit also...

@OldFirm Ай бұрын

@@johnsometimeswrong8742 I Iwill do in the future, I love the Ulster people 😊🇬🇧💪

@williamtraynor-kean7214 Ай бұрын

The hat trick of a Banner tour that spread over Easter, the Apprentice Boys and the Twelfth, such fun typified by the pilot of a C130 arriving in Aldergrove whose announcement was "welcome to Ulster please put your watch back 400 years".

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@johnedreslin 27 күн бұрын

Excellent video. Amazing the intermarriages back then. Everybody was related.

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@Threewheelwagon 25 күн бұрын

Great interesting documentary well told, time probably didn't allow for the inclusion of the rebellion of 1685 against James ll led by his nephew the dashing Duke of Monmouth, first child of Charles ll who had at least 12 illegitimate children but no legitimate heir. Monmouth claimed the crown against his better judgement and paid with his life. A night attack against the King's army foiled by an accidental discharge of a pistol by one of Monmouth's officers all added to the high stakes drama.

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@donniepowell7146 29 күн бұрын

The Fourth of July has a different meaning for me.

@Lassisvulgaris 29 күн бұрын

Yep. Birthday of Queen Sonja of Norway.....

@TheHistoryChap 24 күн бұрын

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@cwam1701e 26 күн бұрын

In training for Presbyterian ministry we had to cover Irish Church history, which basically was just plain Irish History; believe me you couldn't make it up! The Pope supporting a Protestant King against a Catholic army is just one of the many crazy things that happened in and to our troubled island!

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@billlecky7964 23 күн бұрын

@cwam1701e wasn't the first time the Vatican sided against The Irish. Henry ll carried the Papal Banner into Ireland, claiming the Pope had granted him permission to invade Ireland, like Ireland was The Pope's to give away !!! After something like that, having a Dutch King 500 odd years later, makes it seem somewhat less ridiculous than it actually was.

@cwam1701e 22 күн бұрын

@@billlecky7964 You know, I was sure that I once read somewhwere that it was one of the Popes (Leo X?) who ordered Henry II into Ireland because the Irish were not sufficiently recognising of his (the Pope's ) authority; but then I thought I might have imagined it!

@billlecky7964 22 күн бұрын

@@cwam1701e I think Rome has always been historically suspicious of Irish Catholicism, as the religion began in Ireland outside of Papal authority and influence.

@markdavidson9743 21 күн бұрын

Why was the pope supporting a protestant william

@user-vs3iz8jp4y 9 күн бұрын

Still, really, damn

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@samuelhaldane4717 18 күн бұрын

Why do you say Tighconnell when you mean Tyrconnell?

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@paddycaldwell3112 12 күн бұрын

So what did James and his catholic wife Mary call their son? Was he Bonnie Prince Charlie?

@Britishempire-hv6rb 22 күн бұрын

Im in Ulster now on the 12 with my orange lodge looking forward to a great day celebrating British history 🇬🇧

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@emcc8598 19 күн бұрын

Ah yes the so called British Empire which no longer exists and Chelsea FC Chelsea FC which is owned by a consortium of investors led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly and private equity giant Clearlake. With Behdad Eghbali and José E. Feliciano all being the co-founders of Clearlake Capital 👍

@historiamilitaris5161 13 күн бұрын

@@emcc8598football is used by people with no arguments and legacy of empire will outlive us all

@occhamite 29 күн бұрын

What about Cromwell's depredations in Ireland? 600,000 killed? Some say he went mad toward the end of his life, and threrein lies the explanation. What do you say?

@TheHistoryChap 23 күн бұрын

Wasn’t aware that Cromwell went mad.

@occhamite 23 күн бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Neither am I, but an explanation may be in order. Madness is one such explanation, offered by some to account for the Pol Pot-like carnage Oliver is said to be responsible for; 600,000 or so gratutious deaths out the population of Eire at that time resembles a communist's deed, insofar as the percenatge slain of the total.