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| - | |**Active**|1650| | + | |**Active**|1639| |
| + | | |1650| | ||
| |**Country**|Scotland| | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| - | |**Conflicts**|Second Civil War| | + | |**Conflicts**|First Bishops' War| |
| + | | |Third Civil War| | ||
| |**Type**|Foot| | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| |**Colonel**|John Forbes| | |**Colonel**|John Forbes| | ||
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| |**Flag Colour**|Green| | |**Flag Colour**|Green| | ||
| |**Flag Design**|Yellow saltire| | |**Flag Design**|Yellow saltire| | ||
| - | |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1650| | + | |**Field Armies**|Montrose 1639| |
| + | | |Leslie 1650| | ||
| </WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
| - | //Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the Third Civil War// | + | //Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the First Bishops' and Third Civil Wars// |
| ===== Service History ===== | ===== Service History ===== | ||
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| + | ====1639==== | ||
| + | *May: Occupation of Aberdeen | ||
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| =====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 | ||
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| + | Perhaps not properly regimented in 1639, Furgol labels them a ‘retinue’. | ||
| =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | ||
| - | What appears to be the Colonel’s flag is white with a silver bear and the motto //GRACE ME GVID// as well as the usual Covenant related inscription in black, much damaged. Other flags are green with a yellow saltire and some have distinctions; cherubims, tree and table; a stag’s head; a cost of arms. Various versions of the Covenant inscriptions are carried, potentially dating back to the various Forbeses’ regiments of the First Civil War.(( Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) | + | What appears to be the Colonel’s flag, captured at Dunbar, is white with a silver bear and the motto //GRACE ME GVID// as well as the usual Covenant related inscription in black, much damaged. Other flags are green with a yellow saltire and some have distinctions; cherubims, tree and table; a stag’s head; a cost of arms. Various versions of the Covenant inscriptions are carried, potentially dating back to the various Forbeses’ regiments of the First Civil War.(( Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) |
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
