Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya dauki sabis a cikin sojojin gudun hijira na King James. A shekara ta 1692 ya yi aiki a matsayin Laftanar Janar a karkashin Marshal Bellefonds a cikin sojojin da suka taru a Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue kuma ya kamata jirgin ruwan Faransa ya wuce Channel don sauka a Isle of Portland kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa London daga can. Duk da haka, 'yan Ingila da Holland sun kama wannan jirgi kuma an ci su da yawa a Barfleur da La Hougue
tsakanin 19 da 24 ga Mayu 1692, bayan haka dole ne a soke mamayar. A shekara ta 1696 ya zama James master na robes ban da laftanar-janar. Ya rasa aikinsa a matsayin soja lokacin da aka rushe sojojin Sarki James bayan Yarjejeniyar Ryswick a 1697, wanda Faransa ta amince da William III a matsayin Sarkin Ingila na gaskiya. James II ya mutu a shekara ta 1701 a Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye kuma dansa James Francis Edward Stuart, wanda ake kira James III ko Tsohon Pretender ya gaje shi. Louis XIV ya gane shi a matsayin James III na Ingila.