SCHOMBERG (Frederic Arnaud de), of an illustrious German family: He served first under Frederic-Henry, prince of Orange; then under Louis XIV. who made him marshal of France, though a Protestant. France lost him by the revocation of the edict of Nantz in 1685, when he retired to Portugal. His merit raised him to the rank of duke and grandee of that kingdom. At the revolution, he came to England with king William; and, for his signal services at that era, he was made an English duke, and knight of the garter; the parliament also voted him 100,000. In 1689, he was made commander in chief of the king's forces in Ireland; and in 1690, he was shot at the battle of the Boyne, by the French refugees of his own army, by a fatal mistake, in the 82d year of his age.