SMITH, THOMAS [SSNE 8452]
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Captain Thomas Smith was an English officer in Dutch service. He brought a company to the Low Countries in 1586 and was likely killed in action that year as he was replaced as captain.
Sources:
British Library, Landsdowne Vol 79, f. 37, Names and numbers of captains dead and slain in the wars in the Low-Countries, 1595.
Trim, David, “Fighting ‘Jacob’s Wars.’ The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion: France and the Netherlands, 1562-1610,” (PhD Thesis, London, 2002), pp. 411, 470, 492-493.
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.