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For loyalty to the house Stuarts Daleyle was promoted to Major-General. However, he soon had to return to Albion - in January he, together with General William Drummond, went to Scotland to prepare an anti-Cromwell insurrection.
The Highlanders fought with the troops of the Commonwealth of England Commonwealth of England, later Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland under the leadership of General Monk, who even awarded a reward for the head of our hero, but lost again, after which Daleyle was forced to flee the Continent for the second time. Apparently, the old warrior, a simple, discreet secular life in the emigration tired, and therefore already in , with his mountain war comrade General Drummond and with a letter of recommendation from the king, asking them to take these "very skilful people in the knowledge of military affairs" to the service, he went to Moscow, where he arrived 21 July of the same year.
Service in distant Russia for our hero, who became here Thomas Tomasovich, began in the war against the Swedes under the walls of Riga, where he was appointed to lead one of the regiments of the new order in the army of Prince Yakov Cherkassky. However, the siege of the fortress, largely due to the delay of the Danish allies, who could not ensure the sea blockade of the city, was unsuccessful, and therefore at Dallel was sent to train soldiers.
In , when the war with Poland resumed, the regiment of Thomas was transferred to Polotsk. And here he showed his strong-willed, cavalier character, having come into conflict with the influential Prince Ivan Khovansky, in fact, and the commanding army, in the location of which was Daleyl. On the night of 15 on 16 August , three drunken reyters started a fight with Scots soldiers standing in the guard, as a result of which one of them was killed.
Thomas Tomasovich demanded that Khovansky punish the guilty soldiers, but he refused. As a result, Daley raised the entire regiment by alarm, ordering them to beat the drums and threatening the prince that he would distribute gunpowder to the soldiers and order them to shoot at nobles and raytars, and then brought his subordinates out of the city saying that while the voivode would not punish their subordinates, there is no business up to the shelf ".
Khovansky soon thought better of it, and hastened to punish the guilty with batogs, but nevertheless wrote in the discharge order that "the general does not listen to me and does not go to the regiment. However, after a successful battle under Topchin, he nevertheless found himself surrounded by twice the superior forces of Hetman Sapieha and Czarnecki near Chereus. The prince decided to take up the defense, and to wait for the arrival of Dolgorukov's army, which had withstood the bloody battle on the Bash River, but the soldiers almost rebelled, demanding a retreat to Polotsk.
Khovansky agreed, and the troops went back through the forest swampy road.
Upon learning of this, the Poles sent for them a cavalry detachment of 3 thousand men under the leadership of Colonels Krzysztof Sapieha and Samuel Kmitich, with instructions to tie the enemy's fight to the approach of the main forces. Polish banners were attacked by the Russian rear guard, but Daleyl was able to organize a withdrawal, repulsing all attacks of the enemy. Actually taking command of all the infantry, he fought 50 miles with battles, not allowing panic and the collapse of the detachment.
The nucleus of the breakthrough was made by the soldiers of the Daleyl regiment, as well as the Moscow archers Vasily Pushechnikov and Timofei Poltev. In May, already year, Daileil defeated a detachment of Lithuanian colonel Esman, who tried to suddenly capture Polotsk, for which 14 June of the same year "the great sovereign pointed out to the boyar and voivode, Prince Ivan Andreevich Khovansky, his decree to tell him, to General Thomas Dalleil, and he did not take away his will in the military training, and would have made him a general over all the infantry and over the streltsi, for that he knows that he serves Thomas and makes him happy, and military training and every military system is his custom.
In October of the same year, he was destined to take part in the Battle of the Kushlinkovy Mountains, unfortunately, lost by the Russian troops, after which he, however, had once again saved Polotsk. In , in recognition of all his services, Daleyl was promoted to full generals and transferred to Smolensk. However, this did not mean the end of the war for him. In he had to participate in the reflection of the Great March of Jan Casimir, which was Poland's last attempt to break the outcome of the war in its favor.
And, fortunately, an attempt failed, and, moreover, overgrown in the catastrophic retreat of the Lithuanian army, Mikhail Pats. He represented Perthshire in the parliament of —74, in the convention of , and in the parliaments of —2 and —6 Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland, 2nd edition, p. Towards the end of March he, along with the Duke of Hamilton and others, made a journey to court in order to represent the grievances of the country to the king Wodrow, ii. In he was appointed general of the ordnance. On the accession of James II the following year he was nominated lieutenant-general of the forces in Scotland, and a lord of the treasury.
In March he accompanied the Duke of Hamilton and Sir George Lockhart to Westminster to confer with the king, who had proposed that, while full liberty should be granted to the Roman Catholics in Scotland, the persecution of the covenanters should go on without mitigation. His funeral sermon by Principal Alexander Monro of Edinburgh contains many interesting details of his life.
By this lady, who was buried at St. George's, Southwark , in , he had one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull , and a son William, second viscount of Strathallan. The latter died 7 July Drummond's male line failed on the death of his grandson William, third viscount, 26 May , at the age of Drummond, who had "a great measure of knowledge and learning" Burnet, i.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dictionary of National Biography. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the summer of , Charles I. No authors for this piece have ever been named; except, indeed, the members of the university of Edinburgh at large, who are said to have clubbed their wits together on the occasion.
But all that we are certain the members of the university did, was to write a volume of panegyrics, which Apollo, one of the actors in the spectacle, presented to his majesty. The elegance of the designs, the characteristic propriety of the various costumes, the singular unity observed throughout a great variety of action, and the poetical, polished, and English style of the language employed in the addresses to his majesty, form altogether such a combination of rarity and excellence, as not more than two Scotsmen of that age could have produced; either the Earl of Stirling or William Drummond.
So much we may venture to say on the strength of the intrinsic evidence furnished by the piece alone; but there are many external circumstances which heighten the certainty of this conclusion. Can any supposition, indeed, be more unlikely, than that the two friends, the only poets of their country who could write a couple of stanzas worthy of an English ear, should have thought of leaving such a task to others, even if there had been others vain enough to attempt it?
Sir, If nature could suffer rockes to move and abandon their natural places, this towne, founded on the strength of rocks, had, with her castle, temples, and houses, moved towards you and besought you to acknowledge her yours, and her indwellers your most affectionate subjects. And here, Sir, she offers by me to the altar of your glorie whole hecatombes of most happy desires: The old forget their age, and looke fresh and young at the sight of so gracious a prince; the young bear a part in your welcome, desiring many years of life that they may serve you long.
The keys were then delivered to his majesty in a silver bason; and on his advancing a little farther he came to a second triumphal arch of still greater magnificence than the former, where he was welcomed in the following verses, by a lady representing the Genius of Caledonia:. After some hundred lines in the same strain of adulation, the Genius of Caledonia concludes by exhorting the people to. On reaching the cross or centre of the city, his Majesty found a mount raised in the midst of the street, representing Parnassus with the stream of Helicon rippling from its summit.
Apollo pronounced a panegyric upon the king, and then presented him with a volume of eulogies composed by members of the university, after which the Muses song a congratulatory song. He was apparelled like a shepherd, in a long coat of crimson velvet coming over his knee; he had a wreath of flowers upon his head; his haire was curled and long; in his hand he bare a sheep-hooke; on his legs were buskines of gilt leather. Endymion proceeds to say that he had been despatched by Cynthia to assist in this triumphal scene, where all the planets are assembled.
The planets then proceed by rotation in the same kind of verse, and at considerable length to augur to his majesty every happiness their benign influence can impart, the burden of their addresses always being. Endymion then, rejoining, directs these lines to the populace;. The whole spectacle concluded with an Epilogue, in which the author duly apologizes for the humble efforts of his muse, which.
It will be perceived from this sketch of the spectacle, that while, indeed, skilfully designed and highly poetical, it was distinguished by the predominance of pure fancy to the exclusion of every thing like sober reality.
Nothing, indeed, but a strong dash of extravagance could have borne such a representation successfully through; it was of the nature of pantomime, where absurdity is only saved from producing disgust by the splendour with which it is dressed, or the ingenuity to which it is subservient. All the Gods and all the Planets could not be brought down for the sake of any mere mortal being; the man had to be raised somewhat nearer the level of his company; Fancy, with her magic wand, had to transform a Charles the First into a patriot king. From these strong features in the character of the piece it may be at once safely pronounced not to have proceeded from the pen of Lord Stirling.
But the very same reasons which shew Lord Stirling not to have been the author of the spectacle serve to fix it on Drummond. As a poetical production this spectacle will do no injury to the fame of Drummond. The versification possesses an ease which no Scotsman, indeed, of that period, but himself could have exhibited; for Stirling, though his equal in many things, was inferior to him in this. The flow of some of the passages—as for example, the beginning of Endymion's address, quoted in the preceding abstract, is most skilfully harmonious.
In this delightful retreat Drummond gave himself up to the study of the poets of Greece and Rome, of modern Italy and France; and to the formation upon them of an English style of his own. Your contribution may be further edited by our staff, and its publication is subject to our final approval. Here he was resorted to by the young warriors of his day, who considered it as a necessary piece of mili-. He was educated at Edinburgh, and being designed by his father far the legal profession, was at the age of twenty-one sent to Bruges in France, to prosecute the study of the civil law. Keep Exploring Britannica William Shakespeare.
It is a macaronic poem, and the first of the kind produced by a native of Great Britain. What we have of it, however, appears to be only the fragment of a larger work which the author had written for the amusement of his friends, and was not very desirous to preserve. It presents Drummond in a very new light; the pensive sonneteer transformed into the broad humourist; the improver of one language become the confounder of many tongues. It is a species of composition which Drummond's extensive knowledge of languages probably made easy to him; but in which it is easier to write amusing nonsense than to write what is worth remembering.
A copy of this poem was published by the English Bishop Gibson, [note] when a young man, at Oxford, in , with Latin notes; but from the editor's ignorance of the Scotch language, the text is in the Scotch parts of it very incorrect. It has been since printed in a more genuine form by Messrs. The character of Drummond's prose style is described by Lord Woodhouselee [note] in a manner which leaves nothing to he added, and precludes any thing better from being offered.
In others of his prose compositions where he followed his own taste, as in the Irene and Cypress Grove, and particularly the former, there is a remarkable purity and ease of expression, and often a very high tone of eloquence. Lives of Scottish Poets. Sir George Lockhart ? Sir Alexander Ramsay d. John de Baliol king of Scotland with the support of Edward I. Andrews; publisher of Delitiae poetarum Scotorum Robert III ca. Sir Robert Logan d.
James Graham Marquis of Montrose Scottish Cavalier, famed for his exploits as lieutenant-general in Scotland William Alexander first earl of Stirling Scottish poet, friend of Drummond of Hawthornden, author of Aurora , a collection of songs and sonnets.
Michael Drayton English poet, author of pastorals, heroic ballads, Nimphidia, and the topographic poem, Poly-Olbion William Shakespeare English dramatist. George Chapman English poet; among many other works, he translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey William Camden English antiquary, author of Britannia , a Latin history of Britain; he founded a professorship of history at Oxford. John Selden English antiquary and man of letters; his Table Talk was published in Edmund Waller English poet and politician, famed as a wit and lyric poet; author of "Go, Lovely Rose".
Sir Walter Scott Scottish poet, novelist, and antiquary. Henry Prince of Wales the much-admired son of James VI and I; his early death provoked a notable series of elegies from the poets. John Donne English poet and divine; dean of St. Patrick Gordon ca.