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  1. Member of the Ulster Protestant Orange
  2. Society established 1795 in opposition to the
  3. United Irishmen and the Roman Catholic secret
  4. societies. It was a revival of the Orange
  5. Institution 1688, formed in support of
  6. William (III) of Orange, whose victory over
  7. the Catholic James II at the Battle of the
  8. Boyne 1690 is commemorated annually by
  9. Protestants in parades on 12 July.
  10.