DOUGLAS, PETER [SSNE 4961]
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Peter Douglas served as a captain of a Scots regiment in the Low Countries in 1583-1584. He appears to have got in some bother with the Dutch authorities which resulted in the intervention of the Earl of Mar with Dutch diplomats.'Report of the Dutch Ambassadors 1594' in J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), p.166; D. Dobson 'Scottish Soldiers in Continental Europe [part one] (St Andrews, 1997).
Service record
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE
- Arrived 1583-02-19, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1594-11-30, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY