Excerpt from English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661 1714, Vol. 3: 1689 1694 The present volume, which takes in the English, Scots, and Irish military establishments, covers the eventful period from 13 February 1689 to 23 April 1694 - a time of uninterrupted war with France and Of internal rebel lion, for the first two and a half years, in Scotland and Ireland. These five years of war with France did not redound to the glory of British arms on the Continent. The important fortresses of Mons and N amur were taken by the French - the former in 1691, and the latter in 1692. The British and their allies, under the King Of Great Britain, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the renowned Duke of Luxembourg at Steinkirk in 1692, and at Landon a year later. Uncle Toby was wont to say that the English soldiers learnt to swear terribly in Flanders, at the time we write of, and we may naturally conclude that this bad habit arose from repeated ill success in battle. Even the phlegmatic William III. Lost his temper after the hard-fought battle of Steinkirk, where many of his best Officers, including that brave old veteran lieut.-general Hugh Mackay, fell to rise no more. Am I always to be beaten by that hunchback P exclaimed the King passionately, alluding to the victorious French Marshal, who was somewhat deformed. Wil liam III. Was a soldier and a General of no mean order, but in strategy he was much inferior to Luxembourg, who was known in France as the tapissier of Notre Dame from his having upholstered that Cathedral with so many foreign flags. Macaulay has given a vivid portrait of William at the battle of Landon, and his admirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.