Qualla: Battle of Aughrim https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:19 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/battle-of-aughrim-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Aughrim https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim Battle of Aughrim: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim/ Photo credit Attributed to Michael Dahl, Public domain. At the moment he believed he had won, Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe was heard to shout: "They are running, we will chase them back to the gates of Dublin." He rode across the battlefield to rally his cavalry for the pursuit. He paused to direct the fire of a battery. A cannonball took his head off. The Jacobite army, which seconds earlier had been winning, collapsed within the hour. By nightfall on July 12, 1691, some 7,000 men lay dead on the fields around the village of Aughrim in County Galway -- making it, by most accounts, the bloodiest battle ever fought in the British Isles.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/battle-of-aughrim-wp/gc6p-battle-of-aughrim-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Aughrim: A Kingdom Divided Against Itself https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Battle of Aughrim was the decisive engagement of the Williamite War in Ireland, the conflict that would determine whether the Catholic James II or the Protestant William III would rule. By 1691, the Jacobite cause was already fracturing from within. The "Peace Party," led by ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/battle-of-aughrim-wp/gc6p-battle-of-aughrim-a-kingdom-divided-against-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Aughrim: Waist-Deep in the Bog https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim/ Photo credit Jan Wyk, Public domain. Saint-Ruhe chose his ground well. He deployed his infantry along the crest of Kilcommadan Hill, their positions protected by stone-walled enclosures and hedgerows. A vast bog, impassable to cavalry, screened his center, and the Melehan River flowed through it. The Jacobite left w...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/battle-of-aughrim-wp/gc6p-battle-of-aughrim-waist-deep-in-the-bog.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Aughrim: The General's Last Words https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim/ Photo credit Hugh Thomson, Public domain. The turning point came on the Jacobite left, where Ginkel's cavalry finally forced their way across a narrow causeway at the third attempt, under fire from Aughrim castle. Saint-Ruhe rode to meet this threat -- and that was when the cannonball found him. His death was catastrophi...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/p/battle-of-aughrim-wp/gc6p-battle-of-aughrim-the-generals-last-words.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Aughrim: Aughrim of the Slaughter https://qualla.com/battle-of-aughrim/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. The aftermath was grim. Ginkel ordered his own dead buried but left the Jacobite fallen where they lay. Their bones scattered the battlefield for years. An estimated 4,000 Jacobite soldiers died, with Williamite losses somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000. Another 4,000 Jacobites de...

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