Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782, Vol. 2: Extracted by Permission From the Government Archives at the Hague, 1698-1782The history of the Scots Brigade during the second century of its service in the Netherlands is not so picturesque and varied as during the period that opened under William the Silent, and closed under a later but scarce lesser William of the House of Orange. In the earlier century war had been the rule, and the periods of peace had been but breathing spaces in a state of con¿ict, in the later there were to be long spells of peace, broken only by the stirring ten years which witnessed the victories of Marlborough, and the seven years of fighting over the Austrian succession, which brought little but dishonour to the United Netherlands, though the dark story of incompetence and disaster was relieved by the bright and steady valour of their Scottish soldiery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.