[67] The author of the account of this review here means two battalions of the 1st Foot Guards. [68] War-Office Records. [69] War-Office Records. [70] Sixteen field-pieces were employed. Nine were sent from the Tower of London, and seven from Portsmouth. [71] Lediard, and several other historians, attribute the preservation of the King's army from a complete overthrow at Sedgemoor to the excellent conduct of the ROYALS, in being under arms so quickly as to be able to hold the rebels in check until the other corps had time to form their ranks. [72] Fountainhall's Diary, p. 59. [73] War-Office Establishment Book. [74] Sir John Dalrymple, and several other historians who wrote many years after these events occurred, have mistaken the Royal Regiment of Scots Horse for the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, now the 2nd or Royal North British Dragoons, or _Scots Greys_; but the latter regiment did not mutiny. The Scots Horse escaped to Scotland, and many of them joined the Highlanders in their resistance to King William III.; and the regiment was taken off the establishment of the army and was not afterwards restored. [75] List of troops sent to the Netherlands, in 1689, under the Earl of Marlborough:-- Second troop of Guards, now 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. One Battalion of the 2nd Foot Guards. One Battalion of the Scots Foot Guards, now 3rd Foot Guards. One Battalion of the Royal Regiment. Prince George of Denmark's Regiment, now 3rd Foot, or the Buffs. Royal Fusiliers, now 7th Royal Fusiliers. Col. John Hales' Regiment, afterwards disbanded. " Sir David Collier's " " " " Robert Hodges' " now 16th Foot. " Edwd. Fitzpatrick's " afterwards disbanded. " Fergus D. O'Ffarrel's " now 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. [76] This officer commanded the _Grenadier Company_ of the ROYAL Regiment when it was raised in 1678; and frequently distinguished himself against the Moors at Tangier in 1680. In October, 1688, Lieut.-Col. Archibald Douglas of the ROYAL Regiment was appointed Colonel of a newly-raised regiment, now the 16th Foot; and was succeeded in December of the same year by Lieut.-Col. Hodges, from the ROYAL Regiment, who was killed at the battle of Steenkirk. [77] D'Auvergne's History of the Campaigns in Flanders. [78] D'Auvergne. [79] "The bravery of our men was extraordinary, and admired by all; ten battalions of ours having engaged above thirty of the French at one time, and _Sir Robert Douglas_, at the head of _one_ battalion of his own regiment, having driven _four_ battalions of the enemy from their cannon."--_London Gazette._ [80] Memoirs of Captain George Carleton. [81] The General History of Europe. [82] D'Auvergne.