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400 ROSENGARTEN—-EARL OF CRAWFORD’S MS. HISTORY. [Dee. 18, 
quarters, he accompanied Prince Eugene’s regiment to Comorn, 
and thence proceeded to Vienna, still occupying his leisure princi- 
pally in military studies. In April he rejoined the Imperialists at 
Peterwardein under Marshal Wallis. ... . He left in August, 
1741, and returned to England. In July, 1731, he had been made 
colonel of horse and adjutant-general ; in October, Colonel of the 
42d Highlanders, and in December, Colonel of the Grenadier 
Gard. 2. aye In May, 1743, he joined the army under the Earl 
~of Stair at Hochstet, when he was made colonel of the Scotch 
troop of horse guard and adjutant-general. At the battle of Det- 
tingen, on June 16, he commanded the brigade of life-guards, 
. with the rank of brigadier-general. He joined the allied 
army near Brussels in the following May, and at the battle of Fon- 
tenoy, April 30, 1745, he succeeded ... . in so covering the 
retreat that it was effected in perfect order. On 30th May follow- 
ing he was made a major-general. On the outbreak of the rebellion 
in Scotland in 1745, he was appointed by the government to the 
command of six thousand Hessians, with whom he secured the 
towns of Perth and Sterling and the passes into the lowlands. ... . 
He rejoined the army in the Netherlands. On the day of the battle 
of Roncroux, October 5, 1746, he was surprised while reconnoitring, 
but coolly assuming the character of a French general, ... . 
was permitted to pass unmolested... .. In December he was 
appointed to the command of the 25th foot .... on May 20, 
1747, to that of the Scots Greys, and on September 20 was made a 
lieutentant-general. .... Crawford joined the Duke of Cumber- 
land in the campaign of 1748. .... Returning after the peace to 
London, he died there September 20, 1749.” 
The Dictionary of National Biography refers to ‘‘ Memoirs of 
the Life of the Right Hon. John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and 
Lindsay, by Richard H[should be RJolt, London, 1753, 4to,’’ 
reprinted in 1769, under the title ‘‘ Memoirs of the Life of the 
late Rt. Hon. John Earl of Crawford, describing many of the high- 
est achievements of the late wars,’’ and ‘‘ Lord Lindsay’s Lives of 
the Lindsays, London, 1849, 3 volumes, 8vo.’’ In Vol. 2, p. 235, 
etc., there is a sketch of his life, and on p. 237 a note says: ‘‘ The 
diary of this journal [¢.e¢., from Petersburg to General Munich’s 
quarters |, dictated by Lord Crawford and corrected by his own 
hand, a large folio, is now in my possession, with various other 
journals and military MS., the bequest of my kind relative, Lady 
