Hi Guys Just a comment about military matters and the Walloon/Williamite army or the times. Peter is absolutely right, all the commands in the French army were, de facto, in French. But, that was not the same in the Williamite Army where a combination of Walloon/French was used. Progression in the French Army was similar to that in the English, broadly you either came from the minor nobility and worked your way up through the ranks either buying your commission to the next rank or did something heroic (or stupid, depending on whether is was before or after you thought what the consequences might be) and were promoted via that route, the French system of noblesse d'epee route, which many Huguenots were able to progress through prior the Revocation. However, I think that Peter may not be right about the military men attending a university, except perhaps some of the engineers who may have studied mathematics. Some sort of military school maybe, but universities were the preserve of those destined for the medical, clerical, ministry, philosophy ways of life. In all the material I've read about Huguenot military men, there are no references to their attending university at all (Randolph Vines booklet about Ligonier, Galway and Faversham is a good example) . Broadly, they bought their way in or joined as volunteers and went up the greasy pole by rotation or as above. And as for the French guy meeting a Dutch woman in Europe, we use Huguenot quite often as a generic term when we should really be using Walloon. William of Orange (William III) based his army in Holland and Belgium before invading England, so the Walloons and the Huguenots both lived and worked together, after all quite often Holland was the first point of exit for the Huguenot refugees. Also, there was economic migration between the Calvinist states and cities which had been going on for years prior to the Revocation. Such marriages were not uncommon and nothing out of the ordinary. Hope this helps Regards Tony Fuller