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War of the Grand Alliance
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War of the Grand Alliance
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(Historical Terms) the war (1689-97) waged by the Grand Alliance, led by Britain, the Netherlands, and Austria, against Louis XIV of France, following his invasion (1688) of the Palatinate
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Noun1.War of the Grand Alliance - an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
battle of Boyne, Boyne - a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts


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99) which was first published in 1997 and which examines the effects in England as well as Ireland of the Nine Years' War levied by Elizabeth I's armies.
Broad too is the attribution of atrocious behavior: John McGurk and Kenneth Nicholls treat English violence toward the Irish during the Nine Years' War and 1641 rebellion; Hiram Morgan, in his piece on "Hugh O'Neill's murders," considers Irish-on-Irish violence and the role it played in determining English conduct in Ireland; and Brian Mac Cuarta revisits the confessional dimensions of Irish violence towards English settlers in 1641.
Murphy for instance argues that the history plays "are significantly informed by the context of the Nine Years' War (1594-1603)," a series of Irish rebellions lead by Hugh O'Neill (42).
 
 
 
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