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Михаил Денисов
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02.06.2006 12:00:29
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11-19 век;
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Торопиться не надо.
Дело не так просто. Я действительно сделал акцент на ирланско-английском противостоянии, а не на религиозной и династической мишуре, которую считаю вторичной, несмотря на присутствие иностранных контингентов.
Я не одинок в своем мнении. Долго не искал, взял статью из английской википедии, могу дать и другие источники. Вот что она пишет по адресу
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boyne
In an Irish context, however, the war was a sectarian and ethnic conflict, in many ways a re-run of the Irish Confederate Wars of 50 years earlier. For Irish Jacobites, the war was fought for Irish sovereignty, religious toleration for Catholicism and land ownership. The Irish Catholic upper classes had lost almost all their lands after the Cromwell's conquest and had also lost the right to hold public office, practice their religion and to sit in the Irish Parliament. They saw the reign of the Catholic King James as a means of redressing these grievances and to secure the autonomy of Ireland from the English Parliament. To these ends, under Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell they had raised an army to restore James to his throne after the Glorious Revolution. By 1690, they controlled all of Ireland except for the province of Ulster. Most of James II's troops at the Boyne were Irish Catholics.
Conversely, for Williamites in Ireland, the war was about maintaining Protestant and British rule in Ireland. The Irish Williamites were mainly Protestant settlers from England and Scotland who had come to the country during the Plantations of Ireland. They were a majority in the northern province of Ulster. They feared for both their lives and their property if James and his Catholic supporters were allowed to rule Ireland. In particular, they feared a repeat of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when there had been widespread massacres of Protestants. For these reasons, the Protestant settler community fought en masse for William III. Many of the Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves "Eniskilleners" and were referred to by contemporaries as "Scotch-Irish".
С уважением,
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