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    They were left to rot in the field ⚔ Battle of Aughrim, 1691 ⚔ Dark day in Irish history



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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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    📚 Sources:
    The Battle of Aughrim by Michael McNally (EPUB ISBN: 978 0 7424 9658 0).
    Kingdom Overthrown by Gerald Fitzgibbon (EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84840-476-2).
    ‘The Battle of Aughrim 1691’ by G. A. Hayes-McCoy in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society.
    The Battlefields of Ireland, from 1688-1691, including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne by John Boyle (ASIN:‎ B074D1KXR5).

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    1. @HistoryMarche on

      🚩 Have I got a big battle for you today! Battle of Aughrim (1691), perhaps the bloodiest encounter ever fought in the British Isles. It was the deciding battle in the conflict between Williamite and Jacobite forces, one year after the famous Battle of the Boyne, which I also covered here: https://youtu.be/6Xy9ZZebm48

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    13. @Muhammedim04 on

      Sapete cosa sta facendo Israele sionista per terrorizzare le terre occupate? O cristiani, avete commenti o reazioni agli attacchi dei terroristi sionisti contro i cittadini Nasrani dello Stato di Palestina? I sionisti hanno bombardato con gli aerei la vostra chiesa di 1400 anni e l’ospedale di cui eravate responsabile! Centinaia di persone persero la vita e molti divennero martiri. I sionisti stanno commettendo un genocidio! Massacra le persone senza discriminazione di lingua, religione o razza. È giusto che tu rimanga insensibile mentre anche gli ebrei sinceri maledicono l’Israele sionista? Quanto tempo aspetterete per porre fine all'oppressione e all'occupazione dei sionisti, che non rispettano alcuna sacralità o fede nei luoghi benedetti dal Signore dei Mondi? Quante altre persone dovranno morire? Nessuno ha il diritto di danneggiare alcuna creatura vivente in questi luoghi sacri. I sionisti stanno facendo cose così terribili che nessuno che abbia una coscienza può restare a guardare questa crudeltà. I crimini commessi dai sionisti non rimarranno impuniti. Anche se tutti tacciono, noi non rimarremo in silenzio.

    18. @JK-ex6rn on

      good video and always good to see your eyes into the heart and mind of the various battles on the battlefield. I wanted to ask you how you find all this information about all those matches? is it in texts from bygone times and if so? How do you access them? Best regards from here and have a good day❤

    21. @johnbailey975 on

      Expediencies of war. The dead didn't mind. And neither side could afford to offer 21st Century manners to each other. War is a bitter and terrible thing.

      "After the battle the English did not tarry to bury any of the dead but their own, and left those of the enemy exposed to the fowls of the air, for the country was then so uninhabited that there were not hands to inter them. Many dogs resorted to this aceldama [Potter's field] where for want of other food they fed on man's [sic] flesh, and thereby became so dangerous and fierce that a single person could not pass that way without manifest hazard".

    22. @kevinbergin5936 on

      As someone who grew up near to this place (Ballinasloe, Co. Galway), I want to thank you so much for putting together this video which explains so well how the decisive battle between the Williamites and the jacobites came about, and how the Battle of Aughrim itself developed and ended so catastrophically for the Jacobites from a seemingly winning position. 7,000 lives lost makes it one of the bloodiest, if not the bloodiest battles on these Islands, Driving past the village of Aughrim today, there is no visual indication on the landscape that such a monumental event in Irish history happened here. There is an excellent interpretive Center in Aughrim village, and the main flash points of the battle are explained locally with signage, but from what I can find, this is the first visual animated display of how the battle itself panned out, a battle that consigned Ireland to its fate for the next 230 years. It is worth a hundred pages of reading. Well done, it took a while, but from the amount of viewing it has got inside a week (133k), it was well worth waiting for.

    31. @freebeerfordworkers on

      It's true the Jacobite dead were left to rot on the field whereas the Williamite dead were officially given Christian burial. I say officially because the Quartermaster was paid a shilling or 5p for each body he buried but he just threw them in the river and pocketed the money.

    47. @bc3350 on

      Meh from the looks of it the Irish we're about to be flanked anyway – this just sped things up a bit. The bigger mistake was in seeking pitched battles and not engaging in guerilla warfare when confronting a stronger opponent (relentless but small hit and run attacks on supply trains etc.)

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