Abstract
The letters that the Count d'Avaux - Louis XIV's ambassador extraordinary to James II during the latter 's stay in Ireland in 1689 -sent to his master, reveal that what really explains the final defeat of the Stuart king at the Boyne, in the struggle between himself and William of Orange, has more to do with the divisions and rivalries that break out within the Jacobite camp than with any supposed superiority of William's armies.
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