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159: 39: 586: 376: 90: 69: 348:. His enemies, and even the survivors of the assault, were amazed at the success of a seemingly hare-brained enterprise. Probably, however, Cutts, who was now a veteran of great and varied experience, measured the factors of success and failure better than his critics. On this occasion 317:, winning the name "Salamander" by his indifference to the heaviest fire. Though shot in the head while leading an attack against the citadel, he recovered to lead his men to the capture of the works. Thereafter court service and war service alternated. 364:(August 1704) he was third in command, and it was his division that. bore the brunt of the desperate fighting at the village which gave its name to the battle. Blenheim was Cutts's last battle. On 23 March 1705 he was appointed 490: 1050: 235:
described Cutts about this time as "pretty tall, lusty and well shaped, an agreeable companion with abundance of wit, affable and familiar, but too much seized with vanity and self-conceit".
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of 1697. On the occasion of the great fire in Whitehall (1698) Cutts, at the head of the Coldstreamers, earned afresh the honourable nickname of "the Salamander". Later Captain
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His remaining years were spent at home, and, at the time of his death, he was the holder of eight distinct political and military offices. He sat in five parliaments for the
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Cutts' old Cambridge college, St Catharine's, organised a dinner to commemorate the tercentenary of his death, held in January 2007.
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Cutts was deep in the confidence of William III, and acted as a diplomatic agent in the negotiations which ended in the
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The double ambition for military and literary fame inspired his first work, which appeared in 1685 under the name
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was appointed commandant of the town. In the following year he served again in
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An Apology for such Gentlemen as make Poetry their Diversion not their Business
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as a brigadier. His brigade of Mackay's division had been almost destroyed at
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For some time after this, Lord Cutts was lieutenant-governor of the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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in the following year, distinguishing himself again at the famous
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Williamite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland
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English Army officer, author, politician and peer (1661–1707)
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British army commanders in the War of the Spanish Succession
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Hattendorf, John B. "Cutts, John, Baron Cutts of Gowran".
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in August 1692. At this battle Cutts himself was wounded.
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In 1687 he published a book of 1096:Members of Parliament for the Isle of Wight 1016:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 432: 37: 65: 596: 539: 522: 510: 415: 379:Elizabeth Cutts, John Cutts' second wife 374: 352:lampooned the lieutenant-general in his 157: 1046:Members of the Privy Council of Ireland 1026:Peers of Ireland created by William III 555:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 489: 340:of 1701-1714, and at the 1702 siege of 171:Cutts was born about 1661 at Woodhall, 155:officer, author, politician and peer. 998: 551: 462: 187:. After a short university career at 238:Lieutenant-Colonel Cutts was one of 545: 13: 950:Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards 456: 426: 416:Swartley, Stanley Simpson (1917). 409: 14: 1107: 419:The Life and Poetry of John Cutts 1021:Barons in the Peerage of Ireland 584: 449:Dictionary of National Biography 151:(1661 – 25 January 1707) was an 88: 67: 477:The History of Parliament Trust 336:in the opening campaign of the 483: 473:The House of Commons 1690–1715 383: 1: 930:Governor of the Isle of Wight 402: 338:War of the Spanish Succession 242:'s companions in the English 166: 134:War of the Spanish Succession 572:UK public library membership 293:of June 1694. He was one of 7: 908:Sir Tristram Dillington, Bt 602:Cutts of Gowran, John Cutts 495:A Cambridge Alumni Database 366:Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 145:John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts 10: 1112: 1036:Coldstream Guards officers 497:. University of Cambridge. 471:; Handley, Stuart (eds.). 270:in July 1691), and on the 978: 973: 966: 956: 946: 936: 927: 919: 914: 900: 877: 865: 851: 831: 819: 805: 785: 773: 759: 739: 735:Sir Henry Dutton Colt, Bt 727: 721:Sir Henry Dutton Colt, Bt 713: 693: 681: 667: 636: 624: 617: 434:Chichester, Henry Manners 198: 126:Williamite War in Ireland 121: 111: 101: 81: 61: 53: 45: 36: 23: 256:siege of Limerick (1690) 254:(July 1690), and at the 884:Newport (Isle of Wight) 838:Newport (Isle of Wight) 792:Newport (Isle of Wight) 746:Newport (Isle of Wight) 700:Newport (Isle of Wight) 607:Encyclopædia Britannica 491:"Cutts, John (CTS675J)" 923:Hon. 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The Right Honourable

England
English Army
Lieutenant-General
Ireland
Williamite War in Ireland
Nine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession
Lieutenant-General
PC (Ire)
English Army

Arkesden
Essex
Sir Richard Everard
Henry VIII
Catharine Hall
Cambridge
Duke of Lorraine
Hungary
storming of Buda
Holland
Hugh Mackay
William III
Revolution of 1688
Ireland
Battle of the Boyne
siege of Limerick (1690)
Peerage of Ireland

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