The conflict encompassed Surrounding the Williamite war in Ireland and Jacobite risings in Scotland , where William III and James II struggled Hostile_encounter for control of England and Ireland , and a campaign in colonial North America between French and English settlers and their respective Indigenous allies , today called Name_conferral King William 's War by Americans .

Subsequent Jacobite risings were confined Hindering to Scotland and England , but the war was to have a lasting effect on the political and cultural landscape of Ireland , confirming Check British and Protestant rule over the country for over two centuries .