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See also: Thirty Years' War, was a son of See also: George See also: Hepburn of Athelstaneford near See also: Haddington
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In 162o and in the following years he served in Bohemia, on the See also: lower 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 colonel of a Scottish regiment of his army
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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 " brigade of the See also: Swedish army
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At Breitenfeld it was
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Hepburn's brigade which delivered the decisive stroke, and after this he remained with the See also: king, who placed the fullest reliance on his skill and courage, until the battle of the Alte Veste near
See also: Nuremberg
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He then entered the French service, and raised two thousand men in 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
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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
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Hepburn's claim to the right of the See also: line of battle was bitterly resented by the See also: senior French regiments
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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)
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In 1635 Bernhard of 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
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See also: Sir See also: John Hepburn was killed shortly afterwards during the siege of Saverne (
See also: Zabern) on the 8th of See also: July 1636
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He was buried in See also: Total See also: cathedral
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With his friend Sir RobertSee 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
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He was a sincere See also: Roman Catholic
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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
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See
See also: James
See also: Grant,
See also: Memoirs of Sir John Hepburn
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