HILL, JOHN [SSNE 6523]
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Captain John Hill "Capitanaeus Scotores militum” served first in the garrison in Riga with a Scottish regiment. He was later sent as part of King Karl IX's mercenaries to Russia. During Russian hostilities with Poland-Lithuania he was captured and then entered King Sigismund III Vasa's service when the Polish army was beseiging Smolensk.
Sources:
Haralds Biezais (ed.) Das Kirkenbuch Der St Jakobskirche in Riga, 1582-1621; 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.199.
With thanks to Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams for the Riga reference.
Service record
- SWEDEN, RIGA
- Departed 0000-01-01
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, RUSSIA
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN AND RUSSIA, ARMY
- Departed 1610-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, SMOLENSK
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY