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Alten, Sir Charles von, Count von Alten in the Hanoverian nobility (1764–1840), army officer in the British and Hanoverian armies, is most famous for his service at the head of the famous light division of the British army during the Peninsular War. He was born on 12 October 1764 at ...

Barclay, William (1603–1676), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Siggot, Scotland. Although he was the son of the laird of Siggot, his parents' identity remains unknown beyond that. He entered Swedish military service some time during the Thirty Years' War (the exact date is unclear) and earned promotion to the rank of colonel. In 1646 he was listed as the colonel and chief of a cavalry squadron from ...

Bordon, John (fl. 1624–1659), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Scotland. He was a descendant of the Scottish house of Burdon of Feddall or Pitfoddell, but his parents' identity remains uncertain. Bordon, like many Scotsmen at the time, entered Swedish military service during campaigns of the Thirty Years' War in ...

Cavalier, Jean (1681–1740), army officer and leader of the Camisard rising in France, was born on 28 November 1681 at Mas Roux, Ribaute, near Anduze, Languedoc, subsequently in the département of Gard, the son of Antoine Cavalier, a small farmer, and his wife, ...

Douglas, Robert, Count Douglas in the Swedish nobility (1611–1662), army officer in the Swedish service, was born at Standingstone Farm, near Haddington, on 17 March 1611, the youngest of at least three sons of Patrick Douglas of Whittingehame and his wife, Christina Leslie...

Edmond [Edmonds], Sir William (d. 1606), army officer in the Dutch service, was a native of Stirling where his father was a baker, probably the 'William Edmen, baxter' recorded as a juror in 1598 and later as a bailie of the town (...

Fleetwood, George [created Sir George Fleetwood under the protectorate], Baron Fleetwood in the Swedish nobility (bap. 1605, d. 1667), army officer in the Swedish service, was baptized on 30 June 1605 at Cople, Bedfordshire. He was the second son of Sir Miles Fleetwood (d. 1641)...

Hamilton, Hugh, Baron Hamilton in the Swedish nobility (1655–1724), army officer in the Swedish service, was born on 20 May 1655 at Monea Castle, Ireland, the younger son of Captain John Hamilton (d. 1696) of Ballygally, co. Tyrone, and his wife, Jean...

Hamilton, Hugh [Hugo], first Baron Hamilton of Glenawly (c. 1607–1678), army officer in the Swedish service, was the second son of Malcolm Hamilton (d. 1629), archbishop of Cashel and Emly, and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Wilkie of Sauchtonhill. His paternal grandfather was ...

Hamilton, Malcolm, Baron Hamilton in the Swedish nobility (1635–1699), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Ireland on 18 April 1635, the eldest of four sons of Captain John Hamilton (d. 1696) and his wife, Jean or Janet Somerville of ...

Kinnemond, Thomas (d. 1657), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Scotland at a place noted in the Swedish peerage lists as Calensk or Calensh. Although it is uncertain who his parents were, it is known that he and his brother ...

MacDougal, Maurice [Mauritz Duwall] (1603–1655), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Sweden, one of nine sons of the Scot Albert MacDougal (1541–1641) of Mackerston and Ursula Von Stralendorf (d. 1651), one of his three wives from Mecklenburg. Little is known of ...

Mackay, Donald, first Lord Reay (1591–1649), army officer in the Danish–Norwegian and Swedish service, was born in February or March 1591, the eldest son of Uisdean dubh (or Hugh) Mackay (1561–1614) of Farr, Sutherland, and his wife, Lady Jean (or Jane) Gordon, eldest daughter of ...

Murray, Adam (d. 1706), Williamite army officer, is supposed by tradition to have been brought up at Ling, outside Claudy, co. Londonderry, where his father, Gideon Murray (d. 1690), said to have been a native of Philiphaugh, Selkirkshire, is thought to have settled and farmed from 1648. His mother is said to have been a '...

Ogilvie, Patrick (1606–1674), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Scotland, the son of Colonel William Ogilvie, a younger brother of Sir Patrick Ogilvie of Inchmartin, and either his wife, Elizabeth Langlands, or Barbara Kinnaird. Not much is known of Ogilvie's...

Ouseley, Sir Ralph (1772–1842), army officer in the Portuguese service, was born at Kilticoghly, co. Galway, the second son of John Ouseley and his wife, Anne, daughter of Francis Surridge of Fairyhill, co. Galway. He was the younger brother of Gideon Ouseley. On 25 November 1794 he was appointed lieutenant in the ...

Sinclair, David (d. 1656), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Scotland. The Swedish peerage notes him as the son of William Sinclair of Seba and his wife, Barbara Halcro, the daughter of Baron Hugo Halcro, although this could not be supported in the Scottish peerage (Scottish lairds were commonly called barons in seventeenth-century ...

Stuart [Stewart], John [Hans] (b. before 1550, d. 1618), army officer in the Swedish service, was born in Scotland, the eldest son of John Stewart of Ochiltree and his wife, Agneta Forbes, the daughter of Robert Forbes and Anna Sinclair. It seems clear that his family was in some way related to that of the ...