Deaths

• 21 August - Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan
  Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan
  Patrick Sarsfield , created the first Earl of Lucan, Irish Jacobite and soldier, belonged to an Anglo-Norman family long settled in Ireland.-Background:...
  
  , Jacobite
  Jacobitism
  Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...
  
   and soldier (b. c1660).
• John Barrett
  John Barrett (Colonel)
  John Barrett was a colonel and head of the barony of the Cork Barrett family.-History:Col. Barrett is noted for raising a regiment of infantry for King James' army in Ireland. In 1691 the Williamite confiscation deprived Barrett, the head of the family at that time, of...
  
  , soldier, killed in the French service at the Battle of Landen
  Battle of Landen
  The Battle of Landen , in the current Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, was a battle in the Nine Years' War, fought in present-day Belgium on 29 July 1693 between the French army of Marshal Luxembourg and the Allied army of King William III of England...
  
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