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wheeling away his barrow in the fortress, sent for him,
released him, and not only reinstated him in all his former
offices, but made him some time after a Lieutenant-General
and a Knight of the Alexander Newski Order. But
Douglas remained what he was, a tyrant. Having
condemned a nobleman of Livland to corporal punishment, he
was deposed, and received his discharge in 1751. He was
still alive, though very old, in 1763.
Another name famous from of old meets us in General
Axel Spens. He was the great-grandson of the first
James or Jacobus Spens, of whom we had to say so much
during the time of the great Gustavus. In 1681 he
was Lieut.-Colonel in Colonel Kruse’s cavalry regiment.
Taken captive, he was banished to Siberia, and did not
return till 1722, when he was made Colonel over the
Vestgöta cavalry regiment. When later the Russian War
broke out, he held the command over a corps of
observation to the north of Stockholm. He died as
Lieutenant-General and chief in command in the province of Skåne
in 1745, after having been exposed to many dangers in
the rising of the Dalekarlian peasantry in 1743.1
Among the other officers of Scottish extraction in the
army of Charles XII., William Bennet deserves mention.
Having commenced his military career as a Cornet (Ensign)
in the regiment of Colonel Albedyll,he had the good fortune
of saving Charles’s life, who in his impetuosity had ventured
too far and suddenly saw himself surrounded by the
enemy, when Bennet with a small number of followers cut
a way through the overwhelming force and allowed the
King to retreat uninjured. He was present later at all the
great battles of Charles XII., at Klissow, Turm, etc. In
1704 he was promoted to be Captain and Commander of
1 His horse was shot under him. Cp. Handlinger rörande Skand. Hut.
iii. 239. Lieutenant Ramsay was wounded on the same occasion.
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