Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe was a French cavalry officer, serving in the armies of Louis XIV.
19th-century copy of a 1686 caricature depicting the French dragonnades, in which dragoons were used to intimidate Huguenot families into conversion; Saint-Ruhe was said to have been responsible for several such campaigns
Godert de Ginkel, the Williamite commander at Aughrim
The Carmelite priory at Loughrea, where Saint-Ruhe was supposedly buried
Irish Army (1661–1801)
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The Irish Army or Irish establishment, in practice called the monarch's "army in Ireland" or "army of Ireland", was the standing army of the Kingdom of Ireland, a client state of England and subsequen
The Royal Hospital Kilmainham was established in 1680 for the welfare of former soldiers.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell; appointed head of the army in Ireland by James II in 1685 and Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1687, he increased Catholic recruitment in an effort to create an establishment loyal to James
The Battle of Aughrim (1691) was a defeat for James II's Irish Army. Shortly afterwards much of the Army left for France in the Flight of the Wild Geese.