Lieutenant John Hadzor's Final Campaigns

Between 1735 and 1739, Lieutenant John Hadzor would have been in the garrison at Edinburgh castle casting a wary eye over the ever unreliable Scots. The next major engagement for the regiment was at the battle of Dettingen in 1742, in which the British allied with Hanover and Hesse to defeat the French. George II led the troops, the last time a British monarch was ever personally to enter battle.

1745 saw the regiment in action at the Battle of Fontenoy of which the best that can be said is that the British, Dutch and Hanoverian alliance made an orderly retreat. For their French opponents, the battle represented revenge for their defeat at Dettingen. 

The British in any case had more pressing and urgent business to attend nearer home in the shape of another Jacobite rebellion. John's last campaign therefore took him back to Scotland to the Battle of Culloden in 1746, where the rising of Bonnie Prince Charlie was brought to an unceremonious end to be followed by a suppression of Gaelic language, culture and the Clan system, not dissimilar to that witnessed earlier in Ireland. Shortly after John was replaced as regimental surgeon by James Grainger, as reported in a study of Grainger's own life and work by John Gilmore.

As we see, the John Hadzor who returned to Downpatrick was a British gentleman, and fully entitled to wear a sword. The Hadzors had come full circle, and their Anglo-Norman roots and identity and history of rebellions though alive in the memory no doubt, were very much to be consigned to history.