Dutch Blue Guards

In 1699, William negotiated the Treaty of London with France in coordination with the Dutch Estates General and Bentinck but refused to inform the Parliament of England.

In response, they stopped funding the Dutch Guards, and he contemplated abdicating the English throne, writing to Anthonie Heinsius that: I am so angry about what is happening in the House of Commons in the matter of the troops, that I can hardly concentrate my thoughts on anything else.

[1]Notable campaigns in which the guards fought included the Nine Years' War (1688–1697) in which distinguished themselves at the Battles of the Boyne and Fleurus along with the siege of Limerick.

The Blue Guards of the Allied armies under the command of John Churchill, a British general, and distinguished themselves in the Battles of Malplaquet and Oudenaarde.

During the War of the Austrian Succession, they took part in the campaign in Germany in 1743, the Battles of Fontenoy and Rocoux and the defence of Brussels and of Bergen op Zoom.