for their many adherents, who had been driven into exile with them. They were formed into several regiments, who bore an honourable part in the contest then raging between France and the allied might of Spain and Austria. In 1656, the fickle Louis, deserting his old friends, the royalists of England, concluded an alliance with the more powerful Cromwell—the exiles, in consequence, changing sides, threw the weight of their arms and influence, or such as they might still be said to retain, into the scale with Spain. Many of the British royalist regiments, hitherto in the service of France, on the command of Charles, exchanged with their prince, into the service of their late foe, now their friend. Louis, who could ill afford such a serious desertion of troops, which had hitherto proved themselves to be the flower of his army, had taken the precaution to remove, into the interior, the older Scots regiments, and amongst others, that of Douglas, which he had justly learned to value very highly, lest they might be induced to follow their royalist brethren. [Illustration: PRINCE DE CONDÉ.] In 1661, immediately after the Restoration, Charles II., with a view to strengthen his unstable position on the British Throne, strove to establish an army, and Louis being then at peace, and, moreover, on good terms with our King, the regiment of Douglas was called home to these isles, where it has since been generally known as the _First or the Royal Regiment of Foot_, although for a time it was popularly styled the “_Royal Scots_.” [Illustration: MARSHAL TURENNE.] CHAPTER IX. ... “He lifts on high The dauntless brow and spirit-speaking eye, Hails in his heart the triumphs yet to come, And hears thy stormy music in the drum!” FRENCH CAMPAIGNS—TANGIER—CIVIL WARS—CONTINENTAL\ WARS—1660–1757.