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440 HOUSE OF GORDON.
Probably Sir James, 6th bart. of Embo, who is said {S.M., 1786, Dec, vol.
43, p. 622) to have been a " Colonel in the service of their Mightinesses the
States of Holland and as having (/. " lately " at Zutphen (Bulloch's Gordons
in Sutlierland, 59). Elder brother of Sir William, 1396.
1739a. James. After the rebellion (2106) in the French service
(S.P. Dom. Geo. II., P.R.O., bundle 92, p. 104); pensioned by King Louis.
1740- James. 1779, Jan. 9, Sergeant and " Cadie," Stuart's Reg., Scots
Brigade in Holland, witnessed the baptism of James, son of Sergeant John
Mackay (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, in. 194).
1741- James. 1783, officer, 2nd Battn. Houston's Reg., Scots Brigade
in Holland (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, 11. 441).
1742- James. 1783, 2nd Serg. Maj., 2nd Batn., Dundas's Reg., Scots
Brigade in Holland (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, 11. 443).
1742a. Jean (Gourdon de L'Eglisiere). 1710, Engineer (Volunteer)
in the Flanders campaign. 1711, Engineer. 17 12, served at the defence of
Quesnoy where he was wounded in the head. 1715, May 11, Lt., "reforme,"
Reg. of Navarre. 1719, Jun. 12, Capt., " reforme ". 1727, Engineer-in-Chief.
1733, served at the siege of Kell. 1734, at the siege of Traerbach, the attack
on the lines of Etlingen, the siege of Philipsburg. 1735, at the affair of
Clausen. 1744, served with the army of the Rhine at the siege of Menin ;
Jun. 9, Lt.-Col., "reforme," Reg. of Navarre; siege of Ypres ; Jun. 27, Col.,
" reforme," Reg. of Navarre ; siege of Furnes. 1745, Brig, (brevet) ; sieges
of Ostend, Nieuport and Ath, Brussels, Antwerp, Mons, Charleroy, Namur.
1746, Oct. II, battle of Roucoux. 1747, siege of L'Ecluse, Sas de Gand, Fort
Philippine, Bergen-op-Zoom (with distinction), forts F"rederic Henry, and
Lille, where he commanded the Engineers; Sep. 17, Marfechal de Camp,
(brevet). 1748, Jan. i, Director-Gen. of Fortifications in Normandy; siege
of Maestricht ; May, Lt.-Gen. of the armies " du Roi " (Pinard's Chronologic
Historiqiie-Militaire, 1778, v. 562). He was "esteemed exceedingly for his
skill in fortification and reckoned one of the best engineers in that Kingdom "
(C. A. Gordon's Concise History, 1890 ed., p. 4, quoting "Campaign of
Flanders by Morant," which is unknown to the British Museum authorities).
C. A. Gordon calls him (1754) "of Leglaisiere " ; John Gordon writing
to Lord (Kenmure ?) 1756, Aug. 7, says " Gordon de L'Eglisierre has an estate
on the confins of Alsasse. His family certainly came from Scotland about
200 years ago, but he can give no satisfactory account from what particular
family " ; he bore the arms of the Gordons of Huntly " with some little difter-
ence " (Letter in the possession of Mrs. Walker, of the Culvennan family).
In 1732 he was created Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis. Pinard says he
(>■■ 1753. J"'- 14. aged 66.