Colonel Colin Campbell’s Highlanders

Covenanter Highlanders raiding Colonsay during the First Bishops’ War

• June: Based in Islay
• June: Raid Colonsay
• June: Colin Campbell captured by Richard Owen, Captain of one of Wentworth’s ships
• August: Campbell released

A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651 Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0

Campbell Highlanders.

• June 1639: Approximately 700 foot