The lucky escape of William III on June 30, 1690, the day before the Battle of the Boyne. The King was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter from artillery fire while surveying fords on the river Boyne. In the picture Lord Coningsby staunches the King’s wound. From an engraving by William Giller after a work by Abraham Cooper.

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