Apprentice Boys of Derry - Derrys Walls

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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