Rutherfurds of that Ilk, and their cadets

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Amongst the distinguished soldiers of the race of
Chatto may be mentioned Adam Ruthirfurd of the
Dolphinston branch of the family, who served from
1640 for twenty years in France with great distinc-
tion with the Scottish auxiliaries, and became Major
of the Douglas, afterwards called the Dumbarton
Regiment, 1 and his son Andrew, who was a Lieutenant
in the same corps when it was recalled to England,
and ordered to march against the forces in Scotland
under arms for King James. Andrew, who had got
his promotion as Captain, persuaded four hundred
of the men to follow him, and made forced marches
in order to join Dundee ; but being delayed and
harassed by some cavalry sent after him, two regi-
ments of foot came up, whereupon he took up so
commanding a position that he was able to make
terms for his men, who were allowed to rejoin their
regiment, he and his comrade Johnstone, brother of
the Earl of Annandale, remaining as prisoners on
parole. In the end, in reply to his petition to King
William, having been informed that "he might go
when and where he liked," he returned to France,
and entering the service again of the French King,
1 At the Union in 1707 the Dumbarton regiment was incor-
porated with the British army, and is now known as the First or
Royal Regiment of Foot. No corps in the French service had
gained greater fame than this body of warriors, for with it was
embodied the residue of the celebrated Gardes Ecossaises, quite
distinct from the old "Garde Ecossaises du Corps du Roi."
Raised by the Earl of Irvine in 1642, it was present at the battle
of Lens and fought in the front rank by the side of the French
Guards. It was this regiment that the Earl of Teviot commanded
after Lord Irvine, and by the gallant manner in which he led it
until he retired from the command after the peace of the Pyrenees
attracted universal attention and admiration.