Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe
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
Williamite War in Ireland
The Williamite War in Ireland took place from March 1689 to October 1691. Fought between supporters of James II and his successor, William III, it resulted in a Williamite victory. It is generally viewed as a related conflict of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War.
Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg
Schomberg (1615–1690), Williamite commander in Ireland; immensely experienced, he was a Marshal of France, England and Portugal.
French envoy d'Avaux, whose relationship with the Irish was one of mutual mistrust and dislike
The Boyne; a narrow Williamite victory, in which Schomberg was killed (bottom right)