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PERCY KIRKE (c. 1646-1691)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERCY See also:KIRKE (c. 1646-1691)  , See also:English soldier, was the son of See also:George See also:Kirke, a See also:court See also:official to See also:Charles I. and Charles II . In 1666 he obtained his first See also:commission in the See also:Lord See also:Admiral's See also:regiment, and subsequently served in the Blues . He was with See also:Monmouth at Maestricht (1673), and was See also:present during two See also:campaigns with See also:Turenne on the See also:Rhine . In 168o he became See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel, and soon afterwards colonel of one of the See also:Tangier regiments (afterwards the See also:King's Own Royal See also:Lancaster Regt.) In 1682 Kirke became See also:governor of Tangier, and colonel of the old Tangier regiment (afterwards the See also:Queen's Royal See also:West See also:Surrey) . He distinguished himself very greatly as governor, though he gave offence by the roughness of his See also:manners and the wildness of his See also:life . On the evacuation of Tangier " Kirke's See also:Lambs " (so called from their badge) returned to See also:England, and a See also:year later their colonel served as a brigadier in See also:Faversham's See also:army . After Sedgemoor the rebels were treated with See also:great severity; but the charges so often brought against the " Lambs " are now known to be exaggerated, though the regiment shared to the full in the ruthless See also:hunting down of the fugitives . It is often stated that it formed See also:Jeffreys's escort in the " Bloody See also:Assize," but this is erroneous . Brigadier Kirke took a notable See also:part in the Revolution three years later, and See also:William III. promoted him . He commanded at the See also:relief of Derry, and made his last See also:campaign in See also:Flanders in 1691 . He died, a lieutenant-See also:general, at See also:Brussels in See also:October of that year .

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