Marshal Schomberg (1615-1690) "The Ablest Soldier of His Age" - International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Glozier, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781903900611
• ISBN10: 1903900611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Summary

Schomberg held high command in British, Portuguese, and French armies. But it is as second-in-command to William of Orange during the Glorious Revolution that he is chiefly remembered. He died at the famous battle of the Boyne, a fitting end to a very pub

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
List of Abbreviations	xii
Schomberg Chronology/Pedigree	xiv
Note on Text and Dates	xxiv
Frédéric Armand, Duc de Schomberg; Frederick Herman, first Duke of Schomberg; Meinhard, third Duke of Schomberg	xxv
PROLOGUE	1	(3)
1 Antecedents	4	(15)
2 The Netherlands	19	(16)
3 France	35	(17)
4 Portugal	52	(21)
5 England	73	(14)
6 Dutch War	87	(16)
7 Revocation	103	(30)
8 Ireland	133	(27)
9 Schomberg's Heirs	160	(18)
CONCLUSION	178	(9)
Schomberg Genealogy	187	(11)
Sixteen Quarters of Nobility of Charles von Schomberg, styled Marquis of Harwich	198	(2)
Petition of the Protestants of France	200	(8)
Panegyrick to the Memory of Schomberg	208	(16)
Present State of Christendom	224	(8)
Bibliography	232	(11)
Index	243