VERE, HORACE [SSNE 8435]
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Horace Vere was an English officer in Dutch service. He was the younger brother of Sir Francis Vere [SSNE 4876]. He served in the Dutch Republic from 1591 to 1635, achieving the rank of captain in 1594, and was made a lieutenant-colonel in 1596 in the English expedition to Cadiz. He returned to Dutch service after the expedition, and became general over the Anglo-Dutch Brigade in 1605. He served in the Juliers-Cleves expeditions of 1610 and 1614 and commanded a regiment of English soldiers in the Palatinate expedition of 1620-1622, where he defended Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Frankenthal until Autumn 1622. He returned to the Netherlands and fought until the siege of Maastricht in 1632, afterwards entering into a period of retirement until his death in 1635.
An excellent and much more detailed account of his life, exploits, and family can be found in:
Trim, D. J. B. "Vere, Horace [Horatio], Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565–1635), army officer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 17 Jun. 2022. https://www-oxforddnb-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28211.
and for a more outdated source:
Markham, C.R., The Fighting Veres (London, 1888).
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE
- Departed 1635-05-02, as GENERAL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- ENGLAND, CADIZ EXPEDITION
- Departed 1596-12-31, as COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- STUART KINGDOMS, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE, PALATINATE
- Departed 1622-09-30, as GENERAL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY