‘My cabal of one’
The marquis de Boisseleau and the ‘Battle of the Breach’ at the first siege of Limerick, 1690. By Pádraig Lenihan History recalls Patrick Sarsfield as the hero who saved Limerick from Williamite besiegers in August 1690. The Frenchman who actually commanded the troops holding the city is less well known, though Limerick’s 2013 ‘Sarsfield’s Day’ … Read more