Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 2 (of 2)Chambers, Robert
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Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 2 (of 2)
Chambers, Robert
Scotland -- History -- 16th century; Scotland -- History -- 17th century
‘_Field Officers._--The Marquis of Hamilton, general of the British
army; Sir James Spence, general over Scots;[36] Sir Patrick Ruthven,
governor of Ulm, and since general;[37] Sir Alexander Leslie, governor
over the cities along the Baltic coast, and since field-marshal over
the army in Westphalia [subsequently Earl of Leven]; Major-general
James King, since lieutenant-general;[38] Sir David Drummond,
general-major and governor of Stettin, in Pomerania;[39] Sir James
Ramsay, general-major, had a regiment of Scots, and since was governor
of Hanau.[40]
[Sidenote: 1631.]
‘_Colonels that served then of Scots._--My Lord of Reay ( M‘Kay),
colonel to a brigade of Scots; Sir John Hepburn, colonel, succeeded
to command the Scottish brigade, and since was slain in France; Sir
John Ruthven, colonel to a brigade of Dutch, and since general-major;
Sir James Lumsden, colonel to a regiment of Scots; Alexander Ramsay,
colonel and governor of Creutzenach; Robert Leslie, colonel to a
regiment of Scots; Robert Monro, baron of Foulis, colonel of horse
and foot over Dutch, and since died of his wounds at Ulm; John Monro
of Obstell, colonel to a regiment of Scots, and since slain on the
Rhine at Weteraw; Ludovick Leslie, colonel to a regiment of Scots,
which was Sir John Hamilton’s; Robert Monro, colonel to a regiment of
Scots, which was my Lord of Reay’s; James Kerr, colonel to a regiment
of Scots, and since general-major; Sir Frederick Hamilton, colonel
to a regiment of Scots and Irish; the Master of Forbes, colonel to a
regiment of Scots;[41] Alexander Hamilton, colonel to a regiment of
Scots;[42] the Earl of Crawfurd-Lindsay, colonel to a foot-regiment of
Dutch, and since slain;[43] William Baillie, colonel to a regiment of
foot of Dutch; Sir William Ballantyne, colonel to a foot-regiment of
English; Sir James Ramsay, colonel to a foot-regiment of English, and
since died at London; Alexander Forbes, called Finnesse Forbes, colonel
to a regiment of Finnes; Walter Leckie, colonel to foot.
‘_Scots Colonels that served this time in Sweden, Liefland, and
Spruce._--James Seaton, colonel to foot of Swedes; Colonel Kinninmond,
colonel to foot of Swedes, since dead; Colonel Thomson, colonel to foot
of Swedes, since dead; Colonel Scott, colonel to foot of Finnes, since
dead; William Cunningham, colonel to foot of Scots, in Spruce; Francis
Ruthven, colonel to foot of Dutch, in Spruce; Sir John Meldrum, colonel
in Spruce to foot.
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