This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... la hougue.1 may 19, 1692. Ik the year 1692 William iii. and Mary were joint rulers of Great Britain. James ii. was in exile, intriguing for return. Louis xiv., the Great Monarch, was on the throne of France in active sympathy with the dethroned ruler. In England there was a condition of political unrest, whose outcome the wisest could not predict. The Protestant party was in the ascendant, but the Catholic faction was powerful. France and Ireland were in sympathy with James, and actively aggressive, while the occupants of the throne were called "usurpers,"' and to a large number the idea of being ruled by an imported monarch was distasteful. Nevertheless, at the last, owing to the tyrannous rule of James there had been marked unanimity in the invitation to William of Orange to undertake the serious business of government for the English people. Tories, High Churchmen, and Whigs united in the request that he should intervene with "arms for the restoration of English liberty and the protection of the Protestant religion." This request was carried to the Hague by Admiral Herbert, the most popular of English seamen, who had been deprived of his command by a refusal to vote against the " Test." The Test Act was passed to insure the Protestant supremacy, and "required from every one in the civil and military employment of the State the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, a declaration against transubstantiation, and a reception of the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England." 1 This battle is properly called La Hougue, after the second phase, or second day's battle. The first day's fight was creditable to the French, and was fought off Cape La Hague. The second day's fight resulted in an English victory. The French have...