Apprentice Boys of Derry pictures from 2006 set to the tune Derry's Walls. The
Brave 13 Apprentice Boys shut the gates of the city against the forces of James
II in 1688 commencing the Siege of Derry.
The Siege of Londonderry in the years 1688-1689 played a very important role in
securing the victory of the Williamite forces in Britain, and indeed parts of
Europe. The success of King William III and the Glorious Revolution effectively
stopped the building of a tyrannical empire by Louis XIV of France and his ally,
the deposed King of England, James II. The theory of the Divine right of Kings
was replaced by reforms put in place by King William III and Queen Mary,
establishing the supremacy of parliamentary democracy and basic freedoms of the
rule of law that we enjoy today.
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