August 1676. Finally arrived the new commander, Condé, whom the King had appointed. However, Condé was old and was soon replaced by Luxembourg. George was killed in June 1676 while commanding Luxembourg's rear-guard at the Zaberner Steige where imperial troops under Charles V, Duke of Lorraine pursued the French who were retreating eastward to Saverne in lower Alsace. Anthony succeeded to his brother's somewhat doubtful French title of comte d'Hamilton. Voltaire calls him "comte" in his note of 1739. The Peace of Nijmegen of 1678 ended the Franco-Dutch War and Anthony seems to have returned to Ireland. According to the majority view, the comte d'Hamilton, as he was now called, visited France in 1681 and played one of six zephyrs needed in the performance of Quinault's ballet the Triomphe de l'Amour, to music by Lully, on 21 January 1681 N.S. at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye before the king. However, some believe it was Richard. Ireland In 1685 James II acceded to the English throne. He created Richard Talbot 1st Earl of Tyrconnell and appointed him commander of the Irish army. Tyrconnell, a Catholic, recruited Anthony as well as, his younger brothers Richard and John. Anthony was appointed lieutenant-colonel of Sir Thomas Newcomen's regiment. Later in that same year he was appointed governor of Limerick where his regiment was garrisoned, replacing Sir William King, a Protestant. Shortly he demonstrated his Catholicism when he went publicly to mass. In 1688, at the eve of the Glorious Revolution, he was sent with his battalion to England in an effort to provide James with reliable Catholic troops. After James's flight Hamilton made his way back to Ireland where he was promoted to major-general and given the command of the dragoons, under Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, in actions around Enniskillen. At some stage his unit was garrisoned in Belturbet, County Cavan. In the battle of Newtownbutler on 31 July 1689, serving under Mountcashel, he was wounded in the leg at the beginning of the action, and his dragoons were routed. He succeeded in making good his escape. Hamilton was considered to have led his dragoons into an ambush by over-confidence; and to have made minimal efforts to extricate them. With Captain Lavallin from Cork he served as scapegoat for the defeat, being subjected to a court martial under General de Rosen. Given his family's influence, Hamilton was acquitted, while the hapless Lavallin was shot. However,