Count Bengt of Oxenstierna was regimental commander of left over Swedish troops. This regiment was considered a national dutch regiment though, and was founded in 1691. The regiment fought at Luik/Liege 1702, the Dyle 1705, Ramilliies 1706, Oudenaarde, and Malplaquet, where Oxenstierna was killed in...
According to de Wilde in "De Tinnen Tafelronde", 1974, vol 4, the Swiss in the States' Service, were usually dressed in blue, lined with red. An exeception was the Regiment Lochman, that was dressed in blue lined with yellow in 1695. I have found a very nice article and detailed article on all of th...
In 1988, when the Glorious Revolution was commemorated, (especially in the US and the Netherlands), a great number of books were published, amongst them a reprint of the book by US authors H. and B,. van der Zee, "William and Mary" (2nd edtion Penguin Books), and the - then new- "Revolution in the ...
you mean his legal wife. Well Mary apparently went along with anything she was told. It seems that stupidity was spread throughout the line but only the men got the intelligence and deviousness (most of which had been cornered by Charles II). - Mike. Thanks Mike, I thought that was probably the cas...
The decision by the Dutch to invade England was made independent of English support, (J. Israel, The Dutch republic, in his chapter on William III). James II was another victim on the powerplay between the French, the German Empire and the French. The Dutch would never have been able to carry this ...
The decision by the Dutch to invade England was made independent of English support, (J. Israel, The Dutch republic, in his chapter on William III). James II was another victim on the powerplay between the French, the German Empire and the French.
The Rijksmuseum (the dutch national art museum, www.rijksmuseum.nl), the collection of prints at the Rijksprentenkabinet, (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/rijksprentenkabinet?lang=nl) and if you have a lot of time you may take a visit to William III's "Het Loo Palace" in Apeldoorn. (http://www.p...
Arthur, I don't think myself the White Colour was an army flag, but it was important enough to mentioned as such in two pamhplets and a mention in Histoire des princes d'Orange de la maison de Nassau by Foy de Neuville, who decribes it and also mentions it was a white colour with gold embroidement. ...
The French dropped the pike in 1703, the English in 1704, and in the Empire between 1701 and 1705. On the 18th of October 1708, the order was signed to drop the pike in the States' Army for two months. In January 1709 the pike was dropped definitely. I got this from an atrticle by Dr. Olaf ban Nimwe...
The info of the link page on the OOB Blenheim comes probably from Hare and Wijn, who based it on Bavarian and Austrian archive research, Eugenes memoires and the European Mercurius. It's a nice page by the thewaroffice, but I wouldn't call the Pallandt Brigade a "Mercenary" brigade. I'll see what I ...
Well, like I wrote earlier on, it's a matter of defining the words "English"or "Dutch". In 1667, a fleet under Admiral de Ruyter sailed to London. Marines were landed at Sheerness, they burned the fortress there and next the English fleet was severely damaged. Now, half of the seamen on de Ruyter's ...
