The most famous siege in Irish history. The Protestant apprentice boys shut the city gates against the Jacobite army in December 1688. The city endured 105 days of siege, starvation and disease. The walls were never breached. Governor Walker became a Protestant hero. Relief ships finally broke the boom on the Foyle on 28 July 1689. The relief of Derry is commemorated annually by the Apprentice Boys. The siege became a founding myth of Ulster Unionism.
c.7,000 garrison and civilians died of famine and disease
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