Annotation:Marshall Lowendahl's March

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MARSHALL LOWENDAHL'S MARCH. English, March (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The melody appears in several period publications around the year 1780, including Longman and Broderip's Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780, p. 32), Thomas Skillern's Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1780), and Skillern's Military Amusement (London, 1785). It also appears in Clementi, Muzio & Co.'s Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, c. 1815).

Count Lowenthal was a commander in the French army in 1747, when he was detached by Marshall Saxe, with 36,000 troops to besiege Bergen-op-Zoom, the strongest fortification of the Dutch Brabent, considered an invincible fortress. For three months his forces gradually softened the city, until at last it was taken by assault on the 16th of September, despite the gallantry of two battalions of Scottish troops. The King of France was so impressed that he immediately promoted Lowedahl to Marshall of France.

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