Siege of Carrickfergus
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The siege of Carrickfergus took place in August 1689 when a force of Williamite troops under Marshal Schomberg landed and laid siege to the Jacobite garrison of Carrickfergus in Ireland. After a week
Carrickfergus Castle
A statue of William III commemorating his landing at Carrickfergus in 1690.
Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg was a German-born army officer who served as the English Master-General of the Ordnance from 1689 to 1690. Having fought in the French, Portuguese,
Portrait attributed to Adriaen van der Werff
Benjamin West's Battle of the Boyne (1778) shows the death of Schomberg in the bottom right-hand corner.
Latin inscription to the memory of Schomberg in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
The former Boyne Obelisk (c.1890), Oldbridge, County Louth, Ireland.