<p>Most of the following chapters were written some time since, at the request of the publisher, whose intention it was to present the readers of Irish history with a portable volume, which, while removing the necessity of wading through many tomes, would give an authentic account of the two leading events of a very important period,?the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim.<br><br>Having undertaken the task, and performed it to the extent of his inf...