William Franklin (Ireland)
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William Franklin (Ireland)
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Sir William Franklin was an Irish politician and soldier of the seventeenth century. A landowning Protestant with property in and around Carrickfergus, Franklin was a leading opponent of the Catholic King James II and his Irish deputy the Earl Tyrconnell. When Protestants in Ulster began organising resistance against James following the 1688 Glorious Revolution Franklin joined the Council of the North, which assumed control of the resistance movement. As the growing rebellion developed into the
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Irish politician and soldier
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2022-09-27T06:56:15Z
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