Under the happier influences of the present time, our people are no longer forced to seek their bread in foreign camps. The restless military spirit which produced the Soldier of Fortune is now on the wane; yet it is impossible, without emotion, to look back on the exploits of those brave fellows who led the armies of Europe in so many "king-making victories," and won by their swords those honours which were denied them in the land of their forefathers. 26, _Danube Street_, Edinburgh, 1858. CONTENTS. PAGE ARTHUR COUNT DE LALLY, General of the Troops of Louis XV. in India 1 COLONEL JOHN CAMERON, of the Gordon Highlanders, slain at Quatre Bras 44 ADMIRAL SIR SAMUEL GREIG, "Father of the Russian Navy" 85 ULYSSES COUNT BROWN, Marshal of the Armies of Maria Theresa 112 MARSHAL LACY, the Conqueror of the Crimea 142 COUNT LACY, Marshal of the Imperial Armies 164 COUNT LACY, Captain General of Catalonia 168 LOUIS LACY, Mariscal de Campo and Commander of Leon 169 COLONEL BUTLER, of the Irish Musketeers under the Emperor Ferdinand 178 MARSHAL CLARKE, Duc de Feltre, and Governor of Vienna 192 GENERAL KILMAINE, Commander of Lombardy, and the Armee d'Angleterre 213 COUNTS O'REILLY, O'DONNEL, and the Irish in Spain 233 BARON LOUDON, Marshal of the Austrian Army 263 COUNT O'REILLY, Chamberlain of the Empire 292 COUNT O'CONNELL, Knight of St. Louis, and Colonel of the Irish Brigade 298 MARSHAL MACDONALD, Duke of Tarentum 308 THOMAS DALYELL, of Binns, General of the Scottish Army, and First Colonel of the Scots Grey Dragoons 356 THE CAVALIERS OF FORTUNE. LIFE OF THE COUNT DE LALLY, GENERAL OF THE TROOPS OF LOUIS XV. IN THE EAST INDIES. Among the many gallant Irishmen, and those descended from the Irish race, who served in the armies of France, and sought there those honours and distinctions which political misfortune and studied misrule denied them at home, I know of none more distinguished, and of none whose name is more worthy of being rescued from oblivion, than General the Count de Lally, the ill-requited leader of the troops of Louis XV. in the wars of India.