Siege of Derry
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The siege of Derry in 1689 was the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland. The siege was preceded by an attempt against the town by Jacobite forces on 7 December 1688 that was foiled when
1893 illustration of the siege
The wall at the Royal Bastion in 2009. Note the plinth of Walker's Pillar on the bastion.
HMS Dartmouth fires at shore batteries while Mountjoy rams through the boom.
A memorial plaque on a wall showing a sailing ship over some text. The Michael Browning Memorial Plaque on Derry's wall
Conrad von Rosen
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Conrad von Rosen was a Baltic German soldier from Livonia, who served in the French army under Louis XIV from 1646 on. He fought in the Franco-Dutch War and the Nine Years' War. In 1689, he went to Ir
Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1705
A portrait of Conrad von Rosen as marshal, c. 1705