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MAJOR-GENERAL SCHLUND’S CAREER IN THE 
BRANDENBURG, ENGLISH, PRUSSIAN, AND RUSSIAN 
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ARTILLERY. 
BY 
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CHARLES DALTON, ESQ 11E - 
Editor of English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714. 
[The writer is much indebted to the courtesy and kindness of Lieut,-Colonel J. M. Grierson, 
R.A., Military Attache at Berlin, for obtaining from the Prussian Artillery Records the inter¬ 
esting details of Schlund’s services in the Prussian Artillery. The writer has also to thank Sir 
Horace Rumbolt, Bart., Ambassador to the Emperor of Austria, for his kindness in writing to a 
member of the British Legation at St. Petersburg, asking that a search might be made in the 
Russian Archives for details regarding Schlund’s carver in the Russian Army. Unfortunately 
this last named search has, so far, been barren of results; C.D.] 
“ Quo Fata Vocant.” 
M ARSHAL Schomberg’s appointment as Master-General of the 
Ordnance, in April, 1689, induced several officers holding com¬ 
missions in the Prince of Brandenburg’s Artillery to transfer their 
services to the British army. There were two reasons for this change. 
The first undoubtedly was that an army was preparing for the conquest 
of Ireland which meant a long campaign ; and secondly that this army 
was to be commanded by Schomberg, himself a German, who had 
held the appointment of Generalissimo of the Brandenburg forces. 
Brandenburgers were both known and appreciated in the British 
army. A detachment of these swashbucklers had come over with 
William of Orange, and being picked men, had earned the admir¬ 
ation of the populace. An old song, quoted by Lord Macaulay, 
tells us that their height and physique were vastly superior to the 
Duke of Berwick’s Irish soldiers :— 
“ Poor Berwick, how will thy dear joys 
Oppose this famed viaggio ? 
Thy tallest sparks will he mere toys 
To Brandenburgh and Swedish hoys, 
Coraggio ! Coraggio ! ” 
Late in the autum of 1689, two Brandenburg officers of the name 
of Schlund joined Schomberg’s army in Ireland and were posted to 
the Artillery Train. The senior of the two was Captain Johann 
Sigismund Schlund whose chequered career it is now the writer’s 
pleasant task to narrate. The following summary, extracted from the 
Prussian Artillery Records, at Berlin, gives Schlund’s services from 
1670-1689:— 
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