siege of Venlo and in September it participated in the siege of Roermond. In 1703 the regiment was in the action of Loonaken and engaged in covering the sieges of Huy and Limbourg. Meanwhile, its Lieutenant-Colonel Holcroft Blood had succeeded as colonel on 26 August 1703. In October the regiment sailed from Holland to Portsmouth and on 15 March 1704 it landed in Portugal. Its Colonel Blood continued to serve as brigadier-general and Jacobite risings When the 1715 Jacobite rebellion broke out he commanded the first reinforcements sent to assist the Duke of Argyll at Stirling. He fought under Argyll at the Battle of Sherrifmuir in November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, but the Jacobite effort was severely hampered, and by the spring of 1716 the rebellion had been subdued. During the 1719 Rising he commanded the pro-Hanoverian forces that defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Glen Shiel in June that year. Notes References Bibliography Tony Jaques. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing, 2017. Jonathan Oates. The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715. Routledge, 2016. Stuart Reid. Sheriffmuir 1715. Frontline Books, 2014. People of the Jacobite rising of 1715 People of the Jacobite rising of 1719 1722 deaths British Army generals Grenadier Guards officers British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession British military personnel of the Nine Years' War Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers