Downing Street is nervously eyeing the date of July 12 - The Battle of the Boyne
— the anniversary of the victory of the protestant William of Orange over the deposed Catholic king James II in 1690 — as a particular flashpoint.
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The Battle of the Boyne was fought on 1 July 1690 between the armies of the Catholic King James II of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Protestant Dutchman William of Orange.
William had deposed James, his uncle and father-in-law, from the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
but James had escaped to France, then Europe's premier military superpower, who had rearmed the fallen monarch and fellow Catholic in the interests of seeing William, an enemy of Louis XIV, brought down.
Revitalised, James had begun his campaign to regain the English crown in Ireland in 1689.
The Williamites feared the consequences of a Catholic resurgence and took up arms to protect the new status quo. Interestingly, their cause even had the backing of the Pope, who was opposed to King Louis's imperialistic warmongering.
The date of the Battle of the Boyne can never be forgotten as, oddly, it remains an immovable fixture in the calendar of Apple iPhones.
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