STERLING, THOMAS [SSNE 6538]
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Thomas Sterling, a Scottish merchant from Lublin, held the rank of captain and commanded a company composed of 200 other Scots (mostly merchants) recruited from the community in Poland-Lithuania. They fought to relieve Zbaraz in 1649. The whole company were then killed in a disaster at Zborow trying to secure a ford on the river Strypa (15 August 1649)Anna Bieganska, Zolnierze szkoccy w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej [in:] Studia i Materialy do Historii Wojskowosci, t. XXVII, (Warszawa 1984), p.96; Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), pp.199,210. Thanks to Michal Paradowski for updating this entry.
Service record
- POLAND-LITHUANIA,
- Arrived 1648-01-01
- Departed 1648-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, ZBARAZ
- Arrived 1649-01-01, as OFFICER
- Departed 1649-12-31, as OFFICER
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY