The Irish troops in the service of France covered themselves with glory, as the Scots had done under Gustavus of Sweden; and by the Memoir of their last Colonel, Count O'Connell, it will be seen that they were faithful and true, as they had been valiant, to the end. They filled Europe with the fame of their exploits, and have left their bones on many a hard-fought battle-field; and, as their song has it,—

"They who survived fought and drank as of yore,
But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more;
For on far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade,
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade!"

Under the happier influences of the present time, our people are no longer forced to seek their bread in foreign camps. The restless military spirit which produced the Soldier of Fortune is now on the wane; yet it is impossible, without emotion, to look back on the exploits of those brave fellows who led the armies of Europe in so many "king-making victories," and won by their swords those honours which were denied them in the land of their forefathers.

26, Danube Street,
Edinburgh, 1858.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[ARTHUR COUNT DE LALLY, General of the Troops of Louis XV. in India]1
[COLONEL JOHN CAMERON, of the Gordon Highlanders, slain at Quatre Bras]44
[ADMIRAL SIR SAMUEL GREIG, "Father of the Russian Navy]85
[ULYSSES COUNT BROWN, Marshal of the Armies of Maria Theresa]112
[MARSHAL LACY, the Conqueror of the Crimea]142
[COUNT LACY, Marshal of the Imperial Armies]164
[COUNT LACY, Captain General of Catalonia]168
[LOUIS LACY, Mariscal de Campo and Commander of Leon]169
[COLONEL BUTLER, of the Irish Musketeers under the Emperor Ferdinand]178
[MARSHAL CLARKE, Duc de Feltre, and Governor of Vienna]192
[GENERAL KILMAINE, Commander of Lombardy, and the Armée d'Angleterre]213
[COUNTS O'REILLY, O'DONNEL, and the Irish in Spain]233
[BARON LOUDON, Marshal of the Austrian Army]263
[COUNT O'REILLY, Chamberlain of the Empire]292
[COUNT O'CONNELL, Knight of St. Louis, and Colonel of the Irish Brigade]298
[MARSHAL MACDONALD, Duke of Tarentum]308
[THOMAS DALYELL, of Binns, General of the Scottish Army, and First Colonel of the Scots Grey Dragoons]356

THE
CAVALIERS OF FORTUNE.

[Life of the Count de Lally,]

GENERAL OF THE TROOPS OF LOUIS XV. IN THE EAST INDIES.