War Walks

BBC Four

1:05 AM to 1:35 AM

Thursday 26 June

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Richard Holmes visits the site of the Battle of the Boyne in Co Louth, Ireland, where James II was defeated by the forces of William III in 1690. He walks beside the river near Drogheda where the two armies clashed and learns how the conflict was almost over before it started - thanks to the poor aim of a Jacobite gunner