Talk:Battle of Aughrim

message: Should this article not be put under Battles of Ireland, considering it happened in Ireland, rather than under Battles of England?
Its is the category of battles of the williamite war, which is a sub category of battles of Ireland.
On another subject, who is assessing these articles? This one has been awarded "start class" meaning "not useless" but still very poor. I find this difficult to understand as I think this article gives a pretty full account of the battle of Aughrim in the space provided, a summary of its strategic importance and is illustrated. What more does it need?
Jdorney 19:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A prayer for them all, freind, family and foe. Fergananim (talk) 13:24, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 12th July 2009

message: The points made above by J of O are correct. There are ten days difference. Once again, this is clear from the header of the letters written by Godard van R (the commanding officer of W & M's forces at land & sea in Ireland) to his father. 
There were ten days difference in the New Style and Old Style calanders. Events in continental western Europe are usually reported in English language histories as happening under the Gregorian calendar. For example the Battle of Blenheim is always given as 13 August 1704. However confusion occurs when an event affects both. For example William III of England arrived at Brixham in England on 5 November (Julian calendar, or Old Style, OS), after setting sail from the Netherlands on 11 November (Gregorian calendar, or New Style, NS).
In addition to the modification of mean length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days, the Gregorian calendar was required to deal with the fact that the error due to the difference between these lengths (10.8 minutes) had been accumulating steadily. Due mostly to this discrepancy,  between AD 325 (when the Roman Catholic Church thought the First Council of Nicaea had fixed the vernal equinox on 21 March), and the time of Gregory's edict in 1582, the vernal equinox had moved backward in the calendar, until it was occurring on about 11 March, 10 days early. The Gregorian calendar therefore began by dropping 10 calendar days, to synchronise the calendar and seasons again.  
This has been mentioned above by other commentators in the past, so it is indeed odd to notice that it was switched back once more by s.o. to 11 days... someone who decided not to leave a post explaining their preference for opting to believe this(for themselves) but also one who makes attempts to convince others of their delusion -- the 'real' attempt of which is to misplace the date in the Julian calendar, or Old Style OS, upon which the skirmish along the Boyne river took place, onto the date which is properly associated with the all-deciding Battle of Aughrim.  
Barentsz (talk) 10:55, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Echo aforementioned

message: A suggestion: it would help if the article had a map showing showing not only the location of Aughrim but also of the main provinces, places, and rivers mentioned in the text. --Frans Fowler (talk) 04:32, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map with the mentioned places, please 

message: Unhelpfully, the paragraph about the M6 raises the spectre that the motorway plans would adversely affect the heritage value of the battlefield site, but fails to mention whether the plans were changed as a result, or what the final impact is considered to be. A further sentence is required. Deipnosophista (talk) 08:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  M6 

message: I see the 'flag salad' is starting to creep into this article too, but other than William (as King of England and, nominally, Ireland), James and the French, would anyone else actually count as belligerents? The Huguenots were all in foreign service, they weren't actually a 'belligerent'.Svejk74 (talk) 13:26, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The Dutch contributed the 2 leading generals, 3 battalions and 17 squadrons to the battle. They played an important role in the battle which is not yet covered. They are absolutely a belligerent. DavidDijkgraaf (talk) 13:44, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Belligerents