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Ireland and from a list of the regiment in that year, still extant, we 
find that Francois de Montandre was the acting Lieut.-Colonel. 
Four years later we find him receiving a pension of £200 a year upon the 
Irish Establishment. 
In 1703 Portugal joined the “Grand Alliance” against France. An 
Anglo-Dutch force was sent to Lisbon commanded by the Duke of 
Schomberg, whose father had liberated Portugal from the Spanish 
yoke, but the Duke was superseded in the following spring by the 
Karl of Galway, who, like Cincinnatus of old, left his retirement and 
the planting of cabbages to fight the battles of his adopted country. 
Some months prior to this command being thrust upon the gallant 
veteran, Henry Massue de Ruvigny, Harl of Galway, we find this 
nobleman soliciting some appointment for the Marquis de Montandre 
at the hands of the great Marlborough. The latter commander had 
not the power just then to accede to Galway’s request, but he expressed 
his esteem for Colonel de Montandre.! One of the first officers chosen — 
by Galway to serve on his own staff, when he was selected for the 
Portuguese command, was our Huguenot Marquis, who was promoted 
Brigadier-General on the British Establishment. The military oper- 
ations in Portugal in the autumn of 1704 are not worth detailing. In 
the following spring the allies under Lord Galway, Count Fagel and 
the Comte de Corzana marched to the frontier and laid siege to 
Valencia de Alcantara. ‘In all our march,’ wrote an officer in 
Galway’s army from the camp before Valencia, May 2nd, 1705, “we 
met nobody in arms nor can we learn what has become of the Spanish 
cavalry—a feint my Lord Galway made by sending to view Badajoz 
has, *tis said, drawn them that way. I suppose ’twill not be long 
before we hear of them, for if they let Alcantara fall into our hands, 
if we can get provisious, nothing can hinder our piercing much further 
into Spain. My Lord Galway, who is not perfectly recovered of his 
late sickness yet, is the soul of this matter here, and if he does not do 
the work on this side, any other man will find it impossible.” Valencia 
surrendered and the towns of Salvaterra and Albuquerque were suc- 
cessively besieged and taken. After these slight successes the allies 
went into summer quarters. In October they again took the field. 
The London Gazette of October 18th, 1705, gives the following official 
account of the siege of Badajoz where the Marquis de Montandre did 
good service :— 
“The confederate forces being all joined on the Ist inst. near the 
Caya, the Harl of Galway marched with them, the next day 
passed that river, the Xevera, and the Guadiana, and en- 
camped before Badajoz, where the forces lay all night upon 
their arms. The 3rd they took post before the town. The 
Ath, at night, the trenches were opened and the Marquis de 
Montandre, who commanded as Major-General that week, 
1 Murray’s Marlborough Despatches, Vol. I., p. 183. 
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