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.

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.

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 !!

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

Amazing work as always HM!

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.

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

Great to see this crucial battle covered in such detail.

Love to see historymarche upload notifications!!

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.

Thank you. As an American with Irish roots, this was very informative and helpful in understanding the flow of power in western Ireland. Thank you

Heard a story about this battle from my primary school teacher over 45years ago which I've not been able to verify. It recounted how a Irish cannon had a damaged wheel and only 6 cannon balls left. Six men volunteered to hold up the cannon by the wheel axle to level it to fire knowing the recoil would kill them. Following the carnage on the volunteers of the recoil of the cannon shot killing them all. Another 6 men stepped up to level the cannon for another shot. After each shot killing the volunteers leveling the cannon, six more men stepped forward until all 6 shots were made. This story always stuck with me and I've searched for verifying accounts to no avail. May just be a patriotic myth from a defining battle.

Always make time for my HistoryMarche videos!

As a Irish man i appreciate your videos and the time you took to edit it for us all to comprehend . good job lad,

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

Being from Northern Ireland I'm glad you've started covering irish history ❤