2639784 James II and Count D\'Avaux oversee the execution of Irish protestants, 1689 (etching) by Schoonebeek, Adriaan (c.1658-1714); Private Collection; (add.info.: After King William of Orange\'s Glorious Revolution in 1688, James II (1633??701) was exiled to France, as a guest of Louis XIV. He landed in Ireland with Count d\'Avaux (Jean-Antoine de Mesmes) and French troops, hoping to save his crown with the help of Irish Catholics and to retrieve his kingdoms of England and Scotland but he was defeated in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne. ); Dutch, out of copyright.