William's reign was a prolonged struggle for the great Protestant
cause and for the maintenance of political liberty in both England and
Holland. Invalid as he was, he was yet a man of indomitable
resolution as well as indomitable courage.
Though a foreigner by birth, and caring more for Holland than for any
other country in the world, yet, through his Irish and Continental
wars with James II and Louis XIV, he helped more than any other man of
the seventeenth century, Cromwell alone excepted, to make England
free.