Wars of Louis Quatorze

Monday, 19 January 2026

SIR BEVIL GRENVILLE'S REGIMENT

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Battle of Braddock Down

The Battle of Braddock Down took place during the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War. It was fought on open ground in Cornwall, on 19 January 1643. An apparently easy victory for the Royalists under Sir Ralph Hopton secured Cornwall for King Charles and confirmed Hopton's reputation as a commander. Hopton also gained respect for the mercy shown to his foe, of whom 1,500 were captured during and after the battle. The precise location of the battlefield is a matter of dispute, though English Heritage believe it to be within parkland at Boconnoc.

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The Low Lands of Holland (Scottish, 1747 Version) - Fife & Drum

JG Baroque says

This tune was requested a long time ago, but somehow slipped out of my consciousness. Recently, I found it again by chance, and decided to look into the tune, which I found to be both beatiful and intriguing. As it seems, there are many melodies to "The Lowlands of Holland", and this one, a beautiful melody in the mixolydian mode, was published in 1747. The melody was apparently popular with the Scots Brigade (also known as the "Anglo-Dutch" or "Anglo-Scots" Brigade), a Dutch military unit consisting of mostly Scots, that served during a period of more than a hundred years in the "Low Lands", that is, modern day Netherlands.

The image shows a scene with Maurice of Orange dismissing a troop of mercenaries, possibly Scottish, from service in 1618. The painting was made in 1625 by the Dutch artist Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot.