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"Louis XIV of France was mortified to think that his 

 own refugees wei'e the soul of this defeat. He determined 

 to retrieve it. He fitted up an army and put James at 

 the head of it. This army invaded Britain. It lauded 

 in the north of Ireland. There another battle was 

 fought, the battle of the Boyne, and James was again 

 and finally defeated. Who won that battle, the famous 

 battle of the Boyne, which carried in it so much of the 

 futui-e and gave to Protestantism the possession of the the Boyne; 



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British throne? A Huguenot. It was the Huguenot 

 Schomberg who commanded the Protestant forces that 

 day, and although he fell in the battle, he left the king- 

 dom in the hands of WilUam III. Thus it pleased the 

 God of battles to use the persecuted and dispersed and 

 down-trodden French refugees to turn the helm of the 

 mightiest matters of destiny and to share in the glory of 

 His providence over nations and over the march of 

 truth." 



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England is now ready to bring its Protestantism with protestantism 

 its republican principles over to the New World. This Romanism 

 it does. And here it has another battle with Romanism. 

 It has to meet the same foe that it met by the River 

 Boyne, namely, the foe that persecuted the Huguenots. 

 Rome determined to have this New World, and so 

 through Spain took possession of South America, and 

 through France took possession of North America. As 

 far back as the landing of the Pilgrim fathers at Plym- 

 outh Rock, Cardinal Richelieu founded New France in 

 North America. He made this law : '' Everybody set- 

 tling in New France must be a Catholic." None of the 

 hated Huguenots was to be allowed to enter. This was 

 done to checkmate Protestant England. The English 

 and French met at Quebec and fought out the question, 

 To whom shall America belong ? In the great battle of 

 Quebec Montcalm led the French, General Wolfe led the 



