Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . lamation of his accession to the Throne, he appointed Ormond aLord of his Bedchamber, and Colonel of the second troop of Horse Guards ; and, in the following April,gave him the Garter, and nominated him High Constable of England for the solemnity of the became in some measure a personal favourite, and his qualifications for a soldier were soon so evid
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . lamation of his accession to the Throne, he appointed Ormond aLord of his Bedchamber, and Colonel of the second troop of Horse Guards ; and, in the following April,gave him the Garter, and nominated him High Constable of England for the solemnity of the became in some measure a personal favourite, and his qualifications for a soldier were soon so evidentto Williams military acuteness, that in 1689 he was intrusted with the command of the English cavalryin the Netherlands, and served there in that character during the campaign with ample credit, as may beclearly inferred from the fact that in the following year he was chosen by the King, as a companion inhis warlike and momentous expedition to Ireland, and fought under his eye in the Battle of the Boyne,from which he marched, with a strong body of Horse, and took possession of the cities of Dublin andKilkenny. He remained in Ireland till the end of the war there, and soon after attended William to the12 M*7%.v^7% & f%. m FROM ITIF. ORIGINAL OF THE COLUXTION OF HIS GRACE,THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE :.o3n)ow Aim ptje comeattt J WIKS Bl I LEB, D1 K i: OF OHMOND armv m Flanders, where bo had hia full share of ervice in all important and was peouliarlj tiahed al the adver â¢â battle ol Landon, in which, ny ni 11n« head of a strong iquadron of florae, he bad hia hone ihol under hin wounds, and was saved from death bj anoffloerof the French Guard, who seised 11»⢠⢠arm of a sold wbioh was raised to stab bim. He was oarried to Namur, where the flrsl thou tin to put a large sum into the bands of Oouni Gutscard, th< G rnor, to be distributed smfellow-prisoners; and, being permitted to goto London on bis parole, i the Duke of Berwick, who had been
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