Dr. Loïc Guyon (“loh-EEK gwee-ON”) leads a team devoted to finding the remains of a general of this ethnicity who apocryphally remarked that he had not shed blood for his home country before dying at the Battle of Landen. Along with Tuscan forces, a Spanish officer of this ethnicity led a disastrous 1775 invasion of Algiers. This ethnicity is not Swedish or Finnish, but a 7-foot-tall soldier of this ethnicity was once the tallest member of the Potsdam Giants. Along with expatriates from a country to the east, soldiers of this ethnicity assassinated Albrecht von Wallenstein. The Battle of Fontenoy featured a brigade of this ethnicity founded after the “Flight of the Wild Geese.” Soldiers of this ethnicity called a king “the Shit” after he fled a 1690 battle. For 10 points, name this ethnicity whose home country was where the Battle of the Boyne was fought. ■END■
ANSWER: Irish [prompt on Gaels or Gaelic people] (The first clue refers to Patrick Sarsfield. The second clue refers to Alejandro O’Reilly. The third clue refers to James Kirkland.)
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