Sketch of the Munro Clan

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emigrated to New Zealand, became one of the
leaders in that colony, was speaker of its Parlia-
ment, and was knighted in 1866.
But the cadet families, like that of the
baronets, were famous, too, for warriors. First
among them, General Robert Monro, a doughty
soldier, who seems to have been master of the
pen as well as of the sword ; for not only did he
command the famous Scots Brigade that did
such yeoman service under Gustavus Adolphus
in his wars to establish Protestantism in Europe,
but he wrote a book about these wars which is
said to be both extremely entertaining and of
high historical value.
Its title is a model of comprehensiveness: —