Colonel Scipio Duroure (died 10 May 1745) was a British Army officer who was Adjutant-General of the British Army and Colonel of the

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. He was of Huguenot extraction, the son of Francis Du Roure, a French immigrant who had served in Ireland, and his wife Catherine Rieutort and the brother of General

Alexander Duroure Lieutenant General Alexander Duroure ( – 1 February 1765) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot. He was of Huguenot extraction, the son of Francis Du Roure, a French immigrant who had served ...

. He joined the British Army in December 1705 and served for many years in the

(later the

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) in which he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1734. He was appointed Captain and Keeper of

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near Falmouth, Cornwall, guarding the entrance to

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. He also served for 14 years in Scotland as a brigade major and was promoted Colonel of the Regiment in 1741. He fought in the battles of Hockstead, Ramillies,

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and Malplaquet. He led his regiment in person at the

Battle of Dettingen The Battle of Dettingen (german: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession at Dettingen in the Electorate of Mainz, Holy Roman Empire (now Karlstein am Main in Bavaria). It was fought between a ...

in 1743, but was killed by a cannonball at the

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in 1745. He had married in 1713 Margueritte de Vignoles and had at least a son, Francis. A monument to Duroure and his brother exists in Westminster Abbey. Duroure's inscription reads ''" Scipio Duroure Esqr. Adjutant General of the British forces, Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of Foot, and Captain or Keeper of His Majesty's Castle of St Maws in Cornwall, who after forty one years faithfull service was mortally wounded at the battle of Fontenoy and died on the 10th day of May in the year 1745, aged 56 years and lies interred on the ramparts of Aeth in the Low Countries.''" The motto "Stabilis" ("steady") on the Regiment's colours was suggested by the Duroure family motto.

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