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Colonel Edmund Syler’s Regiment of Foot

Active1650 to 1651
CountryEngland
AllegianceParliamentarian
ConflictsThird Civil War
TypeFoot
ColonelEdmund Syler
Area RaisedLincolnshire
Coat ColourRed
Flag Colour
Flag Design
Field ArmiesMonck 1651
Lambert 1651

Regiment of foot raised in Lincolnshire and briefly serving in Scotland

Service History

1650

1651

Notes

A history of the regiment is given in The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army by Sir Charles Firth and Godfrey Davies, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940.

Syler was commissioned colonel of a Lincolnshire militia regiment and troop of horse in 1650. They marched to Scotland, serving at the siege of Tantallon Castle and the Battle of Inverkeithing, before going into garrison at Burntisland. Following the Battle of Worcester the size of the army was reduced and Syler’s were disbanded after a high mutiny and distemper.

Coats, Flags and Equipment

Red coats.

Notable Officers

Edmund Syler

Governor of Boston in March 1650, he led his regiment in 1650 and 1651, thereafter remaining in Scotland as an administrator.

Strength

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