Invitation to William of Orange
June 30, 1688
Seven prominent English nobles and clerics sent a secret letter to William III of Orange urging him to invade England with an army and rescue English Protestantism from James II. William, who had been preparing the expedition for months, wrote back gratefully and began loading his ships. The letter gave a veneer of legitimacy to what was, in truth, a meticulously planned invasion.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.