Empire. After England made peace with the Dutch Republic in February 1674, many of these officers transferred to the Scots Brigade, a long-standing mercenary unit of the Dutch States Army. However, the Franco-Dutch War continued and to retain his subsidies, Charles encouraged others to remain in French service. They included Ramsay, who was commissioned into the second battalion of the Royal English and served in Turenne's 1674-1675 campaigns. He fought at Entzheim in 1674 and Altenheim in 1675, where the Brigade suffered heavy losses as part of the rearguard. It proved impossible to replace losses from battle and disease, while service in the French military was extremely unpopular; of 500 men recruited for one regiment in 1678, 213 deserted within two months. The Brigade was formally dissolved and Ramsay transferred to the Scots Brigade, which normally contained three Scottish and three English regiments. Withdrawn in 1672, its English units were restored, while the proportion of Scots in the others was markedly increased. Ramsay joined the Third Scots Regiment or 'Colyear's,' fighting at Cassel and Saint-Denis, where he was badly wounded. The war ended with the 1678 Treaties of Nijmegen but French expansion continued and Ramsay was promoted Major in early 1685. In June, William sent the Brigade to help his father-in-law James II suppress simultaneous rebellions in Scotland and England but these quickly collapsed and it returned without seeing action. When James demanded William repatriate the entire Brigade in early 1688, he refused, using the opportunity to remove officers of doubtful loyalty. Among them was Ramsay's Colonel, John Wauchope, who became a senior Jacobite commander in the 1689-1691 Williamite War in Ireland. As Lieutenant-Colonel, Ramsay commanded the regiment when it accompanied William to England in the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and was appointed Colonel in December. Scotland and Europe; 1688-1705 James went into exile on 23 December after his army deserted him and on 4 January 1689, William appointed the Scots Brigade senior officer Hugh Mackay, commander in Scotland. Ramsay's regiment went with Mackay and after James landed in Ireland on 12 March, another former Scots Brigade officer, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, launched a Scottish rising in his support. Despite their victory at Killiecrankie in July, Dundee's death and lack of reinforcements prevented the Jacobites exploiting it; after their defeat at the Battle of Cromdale in May 1690, the campaign largely focused on minor policing actions, carried out by locally-raised