Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes (died 1719) was a noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough.

[1] Palmes began a lengthy military career shortly after the Revolution, being granted a captain's commission in Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse on 31 December 1688.

[2][3] He served in Ireland through the 1690s, becoming lieutenant-colonel of Hugh Wyndham's Regiment of Carabiniers on 2 January 1694.

[2] On 1 January 1704 he was promoted to this rank, having already been commissioned as a brevet colonel of horse on 1 July 1702.

[2] From February 1708 Palmes travelled extensively, undertaking mission to the United Provinces, Hanover, Prussia, Vienna and Savoy in order to concert measures with the allies, serving as the envoy to the Duke of Savoy in 1709.