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Orange and Green: A Tale of Boyne and Limerick

by G.A. Henty

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The story of Walter Davenant, a Catholic, and his Protestant friend John Whitefoot, who find themselves on opposite sides in James II's war to retain the throne of Ireland against the challenger, William of Orange. Walter and John demonstrate that friendship is stronger than politics or religious partisanship. Walter helps John feed the starving children during the siege of Derry, and later defends Protestants when their home is attacked by mercenaries from William's army. Walter's adventures include several hairbreadth escapes, including an eleventh-hour reprieve of an order for his execution!

After William of Orange ascended the throne of England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the exiled James II made an attempt to regain a Catholic Stuart crown in Ireland where a rebellion led by Richard Talbot had temporarily overthrown English rule. He landed his forces in Cork in 1689 and with French and Irish allies laid siege to Londonderry, defended by the Scotch-Irish men loyal to William III. The king took to the field himself and inflicted a crushing defeat on the Irish army on the banks of the Boyne. James fled to France but the Irish continued the ferocious struggle for two more years until English victory and the signing of the treaty of Limerick.

Another pair of Henty heroes who are best friends-a Protestant, John Whitefoot, and a Catholic, Walter Davenant, find themselves on opposite sides in the troubles. Although they fight in their respective armies at Londonderry, the Battle of the Boyne, and other clashes of the rebellion, their good-will and mutual service are never interrupted. In the end the Davenants come into their own again and Walter marries a Protestant girl whom he had rescued. The boys exhibit religious tolerance in a land known for the opposite.

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Orange and Green: A Tale of Boyne and Limerick

Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 264
Publisher: Preston Speed
ISBN: 1-931587-000