FORBES, JOHN [SSNE 6531]
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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