[Murphy excerpts from "History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France", John O'Callaghan, 1870.] [excerpted by Mark Murphy, 28 Nov 2006] p. 132 (The infantry men of Charlemont) Like the preceeding Irish infantry regiments of King James in France, that of Charlemont, or O'Neill, in 1692, had 2 battalions, 16 companies, 1600 privates, and 64 officers. By Mac Geoghegan's subsequent list of the officers, they were- "Gordon O'Neill, Colonel- Hugh Mac Mahon, Lieutenant-Colonel- Edmond Murphy, Major- 12 Captains- 28 Lieutenants- 28 Sub-Lieutenants- 14 Ensigns." p. 141 (The infantry men of Clancarty) The regiment of Clancarty, or Mac Elligot, was the smallest of King James's "infantry" regiments in France. It made, in 1692, but 1 battalion, in 8 companies of 100 privates each; the officers, according to the previously mentioned infantry of scale of 4 to each company, would be 32; and the whole, therefore, 832. Mac Geoghegan's later list of the officers increases them thus- "Roger Mac Elligot, Colonel- Edward Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel- Cornelius Murphy, Major- 6 Captains- 16 Lieutenants- 17 Sub-Lieutenants- 8 Ensigns." p. 519 (1758) The rainy season not permitting Lally to advance early in November, .... The main force of the English, under the veteran Colonel Lawrence, having made such movements as might delay the French...a considerable party of Sepoys, under a gentlemen of Irish birth or origin, Ensign Crowley, though then absent, yet subsequently contriving, much to his credit, to join the rest of the garrison, in opposition to a European detachment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Murphy of the regiment of Lally. When the French were proceeding from a place called "the Mount" towards Madras [India], writes Orme, "300 Europeans, with 2 twelve pounders, had been sent off, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Murphy, against Pondamalee. They arrived at noon, and Murphy summoned Ensign Crowley, with threats, as resisting in an untenable post, although the fort was of stone, and surrounded by a wet ditch... p. 521 [December 14, 1758] We likewise learn from the English on this occasion [battle at Madras, India], that, "notwithstanding the ardour of the onset, it left no advantageous impression of the firmness of the garrison with the French officers; and Murphy, one of the most experience[d], proposed, that a general assault should be made on the town in the ensuing night in four divisions, and offered to lead the principal attack himself. It was lucky for them," affirms the English narrative, "that this advice was not followed." p. 545 Among those taken prisoner were Lieutenant-Colonel Murphy..... "Except for the battle of Plassy, followed by the revolution in Bengal," remarks the contemporary [1870] Annual Register, "this action was the most considerable, in its consequences, of any in which our troops had ever been engaged in India. This was fought in part against European troops, headed by an able General [Lally]..... The sept of O'Murchudha, pronounced O'Murraghoo, at first Anglicized O'Murchoe, and finally Murphy, were likewise designated Hy-Felimy, or descendants of Felimy; from their progenitor, a son of the celebrated Enna Kinsellagh, King of Laighin, or Leinster, contemporary of St. Patrick, in the 5th century. The territory of the sept consisted of the Murroos, or Barony of Ballaghkeen, in the County of Wexford; the seat of the Chieftains being in the locality now called Castle- Ellis, where, in 1634, Conall O'Murchudha, the head of the race, died, and was interred; and, till within the past century, a respectable branch still possessed a considerable estate at Oulartleigh. To be a Murphy is to be proverbially associated, at home and abroad, with old Irish or Milesian extraction, even without the prefix of O'; "Don Patricio O'Murphy, the steward of the Duke of Wellington's estate in Spain, being," writes Dr. O'Donovan, in 1861, "the only man living, who retains the O' in this name." During the War of the Revolution in Ireland, the Murphys were represented in the Jacobite army among Hamilton's, Kenmare's, Tryone's, Bellew's, Kilmallock's, and Hunsdon's infantry, by several officers, from the rank of Major to that of Lieutenant; and 7 of the name, in Wexford alone, besides many more in other Counties, are to be seen in the attainders of the Jacobite loyalists, by the Orange revolutionists. From the sailing of the Irish forces for France, after the Treaty of Limerick, in 1691, to the reign of Louis XVI., there were various Murphys, also, from the rank of Major to that of Lieutenant, in the Irish Regiments of Charlemont, Clancarty, Limerick, Fitz-Gerald, Galmoy, Dillon, and Clare, besides those in French regiments; the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Lally having been, so far, the highest in rank of his name. [end of excerpt]