Allan Massie is not the first to claim that the Protestant Whigs invited William III to come to England in 1688 to “depose James II” and replace him on the throne (“When England Went Orange,” ...

It is commonly believed that the last successful invasion of England was William the Conqueror’s in 1066. Not so. In November 1688, a largely Dutch army of 24,000 landed at Torbay in Devonshire, and ...