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

🚩 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 🚩 Support HistoryMarche on Patreon and get ad-free early access to our videos for as little as $1: www.patreon.com/historymarche

Missed opportunity to title the video "Aughrim day in Ireland".

Wow, a cannon shot hitting the command directly in the head is pretty insane from such a range.

As an irishman i would like to thank you for covering my countrys history and filling a gap, as Ireland is poorly covered by yt history channels. Keep up the great work.

Basically Irish War of 1690-91, could be seen to have been decided by the shot of a cannon ball in respect to both Boyne and Aughrim. As at the Boyne, William III twice escaped death narrowly at the hands of a cannonball, before leading his troops to victory. While at Aughrim, it was the loss of their commander to a lucky cannon shot, that spelt the doom of the Jacobite army.

We need to see a 9 years war series !!

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.

I’m half convinced that “Luck of the Irish” was just someone’s really dark/morbid joke.

Luttrell the Irish cavalry commanders who refused to attack the Williamites as they broke through on the causeway were forever after suspected of treachery. Luttrell at the 2nd siege of Limerick was caught writing letters to the Williamites and narrowly avoided hanging. He was murdered in Dublin 15 years later, no-one was ever convicted but the legend has it was done at the hands of Jacobite veteran.

Amazing work as always HM!

I’d heard about the battle of the Boyne. Even read a book about it. But I’d never heard of this battle.

Love to see historymarche upload notifications!!

Always make time for my HistoryMarche videos!

Wow, I realize now how popular it was for the various Monarchs to hire professional soldiers to lead and fight their wars

A helluva shot. Took his head off with a fuvkin canon across an entire battlefield. Dude died like an absolute warrior, though. Admirable. War is hell. The least the leadership can do is join in. If only modern politicians were forced to fight in the wars they start. There’d probably be less of them.

These videos are the greatest and I am always watching them with the pleasure of learning new things.

Another wonderful historical coverage video was shared by an amazing ( History Marche) channel. Thank you for your respectful ( History Marche) channel for sharing

Great video :) Really been enjoying your guys' Byzantine Empire videos, would love to see more of those!

Excellent stuff. Really enjoyed this one.

Great Vid... love this channel. Big thumbs up!