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| + | |**Flag Illustration 1**|{{:covenanter:foot-regiments:preston_1.jpg?200|}}((Original artwork by Tony Barton, shown by kind permission of Tony Barton and Charles Kightly. Previously published in Military Modelling magazine))| | ||
| |**Active**|1639, 1640| | |**Active**|1639, 1640| | ||
| | |1648, 1651, 1653| | | |1648, 1651, 1653| | ||
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| - | //Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the Bishops' Wars, on the Preston campaign in the Second Civil War, at Worcester in the Third and raised again during Glencairn's rising// | + | //Covenanter regiment of foot serving in the Bishops' Wars, on the Preston campaign in the Second Civil War, the Third and raised again during Glencairn's rising// |
| ===== Service History ===== | ===== Service History ===== | ||
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| ====1641==== | ====1641==== | ||
| *August: Return to Scotland and disband after the Treaty of London | *August: Return to Scotland and disband after the Treaty of London | ||
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| ====1648==== | ====1648==== | ||
| - | *Raised in Perthshire | + | *May: Raised in Perthshire |
| *July: Preston campaign | *July: Preston campaign | ||
| + | *July: Skirmish at Penrith? | ||
| + | *July: Skirmish at Appleby? | ||
| + | *July: Skirmish at Stainmore? | ||
| *August: Battle of Winwick Pass | *August: Battle of Winwick Pass | ||
| *August: Surrender to the New Model Army at Winwick and Warrington | *August: Surrender to the New Model Army at Winwick and Warrington | ||
| ====1650==== | ====1650==== | ||
| - | *December: Ordered to be levied | + | *October: Atholl joins Middleton's rising |
| + | *December: Atholl commissioned as a colonel of foot for Perthshire | ||
| ====1651==== | ====1651==== | ||
| *Re-raised in Perthshire | *Re-raised in Perthshire | ||
| - | *Based at Stirling | + | *May: Arrive at Stirling |
| - | *September: Battle of Worcester | + | *August: Sent to Atholl |
| ====1653==== | ====1653==== | ||
| - | *New regiment raised | + | *Join Glencairn's rising |
| + | ====1654==== | ||
| + | *September: Surrender to Monck | ||
| =====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 | ||
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| + | While Reid places the regiment at the Battle of Worcester, Furgol states that they did not serve on the Worcester campaign. | ||
| =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | ||
| - | Identified as having blue flags at Preston with a red-edged saltire and an inscription in gold //Couenant for Religion King and Kingdoms//((Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1)). Atholl's regiment of 1653 also carried blue colours. | + | Identified as having blue flags at Preston with a red-edged white saltire and an inscription in gold //Couenant for Religion King and Kingdoms// (Illustration 1)((Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1)). Atholl's regiment of 1653 also carried blue colours. |
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1 | A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1 | ||
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| *1639: 300 men at Aberdeen | *1639: 300 men at Aberdeen | ||
| *1640: Between 500 and 800 strong | *1640: Between 500 and 800 strong | ||
| + | *May 1647: 800 authorised | ||
| + | *August 1647: 168 officers and men surrender at Warrington | ||
| + | *1651: Estimated as 1000 men, likely wrongly | ||
| + | *June 1651: 856 men | ||
| + | *June 1651: 715 foot with 164 joining later | ||
| + | *July: 100 foot from Dunkeld assigned to the regiment | ||
| + | *July: 859 men | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
