FORBES, JOHN [SSNE 6531]

Surname

FORBES

First name

JOHN

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Captain John Forbes was a Scotsman who was in Polish service in the early 1620s. When he returned to Britain in 1622 he was arrested on the accusation of the French ambassador who believed he was recruiting on behalf of La Rochelle

R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.207; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.260.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, ARMY

Arrived 1621-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1621-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

POLAND-LITHUANIA, LONDON

Arrived 1622-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1622-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, RECRUITER, purpose MILITARY