See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:HEPBURN (c. 1598-1636)
, Scottish soldier in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, was a son of See also:George See also:Hepburn of Athelstaneford near See also:Haddington
.
In 162o and in the following years he served in Bohemia, on the See also:lower See also:Rhine and in the See also:Netherlands, and in 1623 he entered the service of Gustavus See also:Adolphus, who, two years later, appointed him See also:colonel of a Scottish See also:regiment of his See also:army
.
He took See also:part with his regiment in Gustavus's See also:Polish See also:wars, and in 1631, a few months before the See also:battle of See also:Breitenfeld he was placed in command of the " Scots " or " See also:Green " See also:brigade of the See also:Swedish army
.
At Breitenfeld it was
.
Hepburn's brigade which delivered the decisive stroke, and after this he remained with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, who placed the fullest reliance on his skill and courage, until the battle of the Alte Veste near See also:Nuremberg
.
He then entered the See also:French service, and raised two thousand men in See also:Scotland for the French army, to which force was added in See also:France the historic Scottish See also:archer bodyguard of the French See also:kings
.
The existing Royal Scots (See also:Lothian) regiment (See also:late 1st See also:Foot) represents in the See also:British army of to-See also:day Hepburn's French regiment, and indirectly, through the amalgamation referred to, the Scottish contingent of the See also:Hundred Years' War
.
Hepburn's claim to the right of the See also:line of battle was bitterly resented by the See also:senior French regiments
.
Shortly after this, in 1633, Hepburn was under a marechal de See also:camp, and he took part in the See also:campaigns in See also:Alsace and See also:Lorraine (1634-36)
.
In 1635 Bernhard of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar, on entering the French service, brought with him Hepburn's former Swedish regiment, which was at once amalgamated with the French " regiment d'See also:Hebron," the latter thus attaining the unusual strength of 8300 men
.
See also:Sir See also:John Hepburn was killed shortly afterwards during the See also:siege of Saverne (See also:Zabern) on the 8th of See also:July 1636
.
He was buried in See also:Total See also:cathedral
.
With his friend
Sir See also:Robert See also:Monro, Hepburn was the foremost of the Scottish soldiers of See also:fortune who See also:bore so conspicuous a part in the Thirty Years' War
.
He was a sincere See also:Roman See also:Catholic
.
It is stated that he See also:left Gustavus owing to a jest about his See also:religion, and at any See also:rate he found in the French service, in which he ended his days, the opportunity of reconciling his beliefs with the See also:desire of military See also:glory which had led him into the Swedish army, and with the patriotic feeling which had first brought him out to the wars to fight for the See also:Stuart princess, See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth of Bohemia
.
See See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, See also:Memoirs of Sir John Hepburn
.
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