four frigates – set sail on 15 August, it cruised in the Bay of Biscay, posing no threat to England or English communications with Ireland. The French, therefore, were unable to prevent Admiral Rooke relieving the siege of Londonderry on 10 August, or, forestall Marshal Schomberg's army from England landing near Carrickfergus on 23 August. With Schomberg's reinforcements, the Williamite army opposing James in Ireland now amounted to some 40,000 troops. Notes References Aubrey, Philip. The Defeat of James Stuart’s Armada 1692. Leicester University Press, (1979). Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714. Longman, (1999). Kinross, John. The Boyne and Aughrim: The War of the Two Kings. The Windrush Press, (1998). Roger N.A.M. The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649–1815, Penguin Group, (2006). Weigley, Russell The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo, Indiana University Press, (2004). Tunstall, B. Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics, 1650-1815. Conway Maritime, (2001). 1689 in France 1689 in Ireland Naval battles of the Nine Years' War Naval battles involving France Naval battles involving England Conflicts in 1689