HISTORIANS EXAGGERATE.
BATTLE OF BOYNE LOSSES. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. August 22. Eye witnesses’ accounts of the Battle of the Boyne, written on parchment hy a Protestant clergyman, ltave been discovered in County Down. It carries a com prehen si ve plan of the battlefield and declares th»at the losses were fewer than is generally given. l>eing not. more than 800 to 900 Irish and 200 English. of whom TOO were* Dutch.
The ■writer declares that Ring William mercifully stopjied the pursuit, preventing the further effusion of blood.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13638, 24 August 1937, Page 5
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90HISTORIANS EXAGGERATE. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13638, 24 August 1937, Page 5
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