The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange (a Calvinist, r. 1689 – 1702) lands at Brixham, England commanding his Protestant Militia of 40,000 recruited from all of Protestant Europe, to depose James II (a Catholic, r. 1685 – 1688).
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 2:408.
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