49 Facts About Antoine Hamilton

Antoine Hamilton saw action in the battles of Newtownbutler and the Boyne.

In France Hamilton lived at the exile court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye where he became a courtier, poet, and writer.

Antoine Hamilton chose French as his language and adopted a light and elegant style, seeking to amuse and entertain his reader.

Antoine Hamilton was the third son of Sir George Hamilton and his wife Mary Butler.

Antoine Hamilton's father was Scottish, the fourth son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn.

Antoine Hamilton supported the lord lieutenant of Ireland, James Butler, Marquess of Ormond, during the Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest and called himself a baronet.

Antoine Hamilton was a sister of James Butler, making Anthony's father a brother-in-law of the lord lieutenant.

Early in 1661 Antoine Hamilton's father brought his wife and younger children to London, where they lived all together in a house near Whitehall.

Antoine Hamilton befriended Gramont, who soon became part of the inner circle.

Antoine Hamilton went but found that he was not welcome.

Antoine Hamilton then took service in his brother's regiment, fighting in the Franco-Dutch War.

Antoine Hamilton considered Hamilton a moderate Catholic and possible ally.

Clarendon praised Antoine Hamilton, saying that he understood the regiment better than its colonel.

Clarendon stated that Antoine Hamilton objected to replacing good Protestant officers with mediocre Catholic ones.

In 1688 Antoine Hamilton was colonel of a regiment of foot.

Antoine Hamilton's regiment was stationed in Portsmouth, where the Duke of Berwick was governor.

Mountcashel asked him to pursue retreating enemy troops, but the enemy led him into a trap and Antoine Hamilton's dragoons were routed.

Antoine Hamilton was wounded in the leg at the beginning of the action and fled the scene.

Antoine Hamilton lived the last thirty years of his life at the exile court at the Chateau-Vieux of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Antoine Hamilton was appreciated as an ornament of that court.

At Saint-Germain Antoine Hamilton got acquainted with the Bulkeley sisters, especially Anne and Henrietta.

Antoine Hamilton was in love with Henrietta or at least wrote her admirative letters.

Antoine Hamilton was about 30 years younger than him and had no dowry.

About 1696 Antoine Hamilton wrote his tale Zeneyde, in which he denounces the bigotry of James's last years.

Early in 1701 Antoine Hamilton accompanied Berwick to Rome to ask the new pope, Clement XI, for help.

Antoine Hamilton wrote a poem Sur l'agonie du feu roi d'Angleterre [On the Agony of the Late King of England].

In 1704 Antoine Hamilton went to see Gramont at Semeac in Gascogne, where he decided to write his friend's memoirs.

Antoine Hamilton was part of the circle around the Duchess of Maine, where he was known as "Horace d'Albion".

Antoine Hamilton was said to have sailed to Scotland in the attempted invasion of 1708, but only Richard went.

Antoine Hamilton met the young Voltaire at the suppers of the Temple Society shortly before 1715.

Antoine Hamilton was buried on the 21 in the parish church.

Antoine Hamilton came from an English-speaking family but chose to write in French.

Antoine Hamilton wrote at least five tales and many poems, songs, epistles, and letters :.

Antoine Hamilton pretended the memoirs were dictated to him by Gramont.

Antoine Hamilton started work in 1704 and completed them in 1710.

The subtitle of the first edition "L'histore amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre" pertains to this part, for which Antoine Hamilton had Gramont, who died in 1707, and Elizabeth, who died in 1708, as witnesses.

Antoine Hamilton's tales influenced Voltaire and Crebillon the younger in the 18th century.

George Saintsbury maintains that Antoine Hamilton's tales have more literary merit than his fanous memoirs.

Antoine Hamilton's father was the Roman emperor Maximus and her mother a daughter of the Frankish king Clodio.

Antoine Hamilton was to marry Childeric but was caught by Genserich at Aquileia.

Antoine Hamilton's father protects her by surrounding his castle with water.

Antoine Hamilton frees her from Dentue and they return to Kashmir.

Antoine Hamilton left the story incomplete and never mentions the fourth Facardin.

Antoine Hamilton meets the handsome Facardin who tells his adventures on the Lions' Island and on Mount Atlas.

Antoine Hamilton tells her life in which she was married to a genie but loved the tall Facardin.

Antoine Hamilton dedicated it to his niece Margaret, his brother John's daughter.

Antoine Hamilton's tales were circulated privately as manuscripts during his lifetime.

Antoine Hamilton wrote songs and exchanged amusing verses with the Duke of Berwick.

Antoine Hamilton helped his niece Claude Charlotte, Gramont's daughter, who had married Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford, in 1694, to carry on a witty correspondence with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.