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 men, who wore levied in Switzerland, arrived within these eight days.” One of the officers who died was Le Sieur de Maisonrouge, a captain. At the blockade of Charlemont this regiment and La Caillemotte’s did their duty well; and at the Battle of the Boyne both regiments were much exposed and fought with conspicuous bravery. Mr Story gives us a specimen of Cambon’s temper, though he seems to have overlooked the fact that the Colonel was also Quarter-Master-General. The time of the anecdote is the day after the victory of the Boyne, when the regiments were forming into a camp. “Monsieur Cambon had almost set his own and my Lord Drogheda’s regiment by the ears, by ordering a detachment of his men to take away by force the grass from the rear of the other regiment. The matter came so high that both regiments were charging their pieces. But my Lord Drogheda ordered his men to their tents, and Lieut.-General Douglas ordered Monsieur Cambon to desist from his pretensions. This might have been of dangerous consequence; and yet my Lord was so kind to Monsieur Cambon as not to acquaint the King with it.” In 1691 Cambon is mentioned among the officers who advised the storming of Athlone. Samuel (le Boisrond was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Cambon’s, 12th September 1690 (he was at the head of the half-pay list in 1719 and 1722, with a pension of £219). At Aughrim this regiment lost one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, and ten soldiers; the wounded consisted of four captains, four lieutenants, four ensigns, and thirty-five soldiers. Luttrell has an entry, headed Deal, Feb. 1693 — “Colonel Cambon was petitioned against by his inferior officers for mismanagement, and stopping their pay, and the King has discharged him.” Poor Cambon seems to have been seized with fatal illness upon this sad catastrophe, and, as a mark of sympathy, the formal appointment of a successor was postponed during the remaining months of his life. This we infer from observing that Colonel Cambon died on August 9th, and that the date of the commission of the Comte de Marton as his successor, is August 10th 1693. The Roll of this Regiment, as at 4th February 1698, is preserved at Carrowdore Castle; the officers’ names were the following:—

Captains Delandes (9th Sept. 1690), Andre de Moncal (7th Oct. 1691), Guilhaume de Poncet (1st Aug. 1694), Jacob de Graveron (29th June 1696).

Lieutenants Isaac de Bancous (1st July 1691), Ephraim de Falaize (15th Aug. 1691), Dalbis (do.), Noel des Claux (1st Feb. 1693), Gabriel de la Motte