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Dirschau, a strongly fortified place near Danzig. Of his
bravery many stories are told in the annals of the war:
how he and three others chased forty Polish irregulars
under the leadership of Glinsky, burned his village, and
enforced contribution from the whole surrounding district;
how he subdued the refractory nobles of Cassubia and
pursued the Danzig troops to the very gates of their town.
In 1706 he was leader of the advance-guard of General
Meyerfeld. As such he by stealth took the fortress of
Nessewitz, surprised the garrison of two thousand
Russians, and slew the Commander with his own hand.
Immediately after the defeat of Poltawa he and General
Meycofeldt were sent by Charles XII. to Czar Peter,
from whose court he returned after an absence of four
weeks. The King of Sweden then ordered him back to
Sweden to assist in the war against the Danes, who in
the meantime had invaded Skåne. Men of his temper
were wanted at the front, and he very soon showed his
mettle. In the Battle of Helsingborg in 1710 he
commanded the left wing of the Swedish army, and drove
back the right wing of the Danes. Wherever the danger
was greatest Bennet found his place, and his appointment
as Major-General and Director uaf Avantgarde” (1717),
as the Swedes call it, was certainly well deserved.
Having witnessed the fatal siege of Fredrikshall, he was
despatched to the Queen with the news of the King’s
death. He peacefully concluded a stormy life in 1740
as chief commander of Malmö and Governor of Halland.
His descendants were so numerous that in 1857 no less
than thirty Barons Bennet were counted in Sweden.1
Among the Swedish officers of Scotch extraction in
the army of Charles XII. who have left us memoirs or
notes is Robert Petre, whose diary has since been
1 See Biographiskt Lexicon.
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