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| |**Active**|1640| | |**Active**|1640| | ||
| + | | |1651| | ||
| |**Country**|Scotland| | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| |**Conflicts**|Second Bishops’ War| | |**Conflicts**|Second Bishops’ War| | ||
| + | | |Third Civil War| | ||
| |**Type**|Foot| | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| |**Colonel**|Allan Cameron| | |**Colonel**|Allan Cameron| | ||
| + | | |Sir Ewen Cameron| | ||
| |**Area Raised**|Lochiel| | |**Area Raised**|Lochiel| | ||
| |**Coat Colour**| | | |**Coat Colour**| | | ||
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| // Covenanter Highlanders accompanying Argyll on his Highland campaign during the Second Bishops’ War// | // Covenanter Highlanders accompanying Argyll on his Highland campaign during the Second Bishops’ War// | ||
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| + | **Later led by Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel** | ||
| ===== Service History ===== | ===== Service History ===== | ||
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| *July: Plunder the Robertsons of Rannoch | *July: Plunder the Robertsons of Rannoch | ||
| *August: Return home | *August: Return home | ||
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| + | ====1650==== | ||
| + | *December: Sir Ewen Cameron commissioned colonel to raise his clansmen into a regiment | ||
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| + | ====1651==== | ||
| + | *March against Clanranald to collect feu duty | ||
| + | *Harry the lands of McDonald of Keppoch, who owed Cameron mortgage payments | ||
| + | *Disbanded | ||
| =====Notes===== | =====Notes===== | ||
| 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 | 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 | ||
| - | A contingent of Cameron Highlanders, they were persuaded to join Argyll by their enmity for Huntly. | + | A contingent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Cameron#17th_century_and_Civil_War|Clan Cameron]], they were persuaded to join Argyll in 1640 by their enmity for Huntly. The clan was raised again in 1651 but did little more than raid their neighbours and demand money with menaces. |
| =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | ||
