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 | | Alexander took to the profession of arms very early in life, and served as a Captain in the Regiment of Horatio, Lord Vere, in Holland, and served with the Dutch against the Spaniards. |
 | | In 1642, Alexander, Earl of Leven was appointed General of the Scottish forces for suppressing the rebellion in Ireland from whence he was recalled in 1643, to command of the Scottish Army of 21,000 men, assembled at Berwick. |
 | | Since the Earl had to be away in London at Court much of the time, his wife Anne Lindsay, daughter of the Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, undertook much of the supervision, and as the surviving correspondence shows, she was intelligent, hardworking and very attentive to detail. |
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