The two accounts from the losing side of this battle are known as "The Light to the Blind" and "The Destruction of Cyprus."  
The two accounts from the losing side of this battle are known as "The Light to the Blind" and "The Destruction of Cyprus."  The attacker's movement of cavalry towards Slane distracted Sarsfield's horse from the critical crossing at Oldbridge. There the infantry, led by the Dutch Blue Guards and the Danish contingent, forded the stream under hostile fire despite the death of their leader, the Duke of Schomburg. While one king involved in this battle was nearly killed by his own Inniskilling troops, the other was the first to flee the field, in the company of the Duc de Lauzun. FTP, name this battle commemorated annually by the Protestant marchers of Northern Ireland, a 1690 clash between William III and James II.
The two accounts from the losing side of this battle are known as "The Light to the Blind" and "The Destruction of Cyprus."  
Battle of the Boyne