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| + | ======Sir Alexander Stewart’s Regiment of Foot====== | ||
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| + | <WRAP right> | ||
| + | |**Active**|1649 to 1650| | ||
| + | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| + | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| + | |**Conflicts**|Third Civil War| | ||
| + | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| + | |**Colonel**|Sir Alexander Stewart| | ||
| + | |**Area Raised**|Edinburgh| | ||
| + | |**Coat Colour**| | | | ||
| + | |**Flag Colour**|Red| | ||
| + | |**Flag Design**|White saltire in canton| | ||
| + | |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1650| | ||
| + | </WRAP> | ||
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| + | //Covenanter regiment of foot serving at Dunbar and at Edinburgh Castle in the Third Civil War// | ||
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| + | ===== Service History ===== | ||
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| + | ====1649==== | ||
| + | *Raised in Edinburgh | ||
| + | ====1650==== | ||
| + | *September: Battle of Dunbar //destroyed// | ||
| + | *September to December: Besieged at Edinburgh Castle (1 coy) | ||
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| + | =====Notes==== | ||
| + | Stewart’s regiment were destroyed at Dunbar, but had left a detachment of one company at Edinburgh Castle, that was besieged until the December. | ||
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| + | =====Coats, Flags and Equipment===== | ||
| + | Flags of the regiment were captured at Dunbar. The Colonel’s is white with a large three-towered castle on a rock, the motto //COVANANT FOR RELIGION KING AND KINGDOMES// surrounded by a wreath, with the crest of an arm and sword. The Lt Col’s was red with a similar castle , motto and wreath, but no rock and a crest of a quill and bible with the motto //EXVRGO//. One was plain red. The remainder had a red field, white saltire in a canton and some had additional yellow stars, with the inscription //COVENANT FOR RELIGION KING AND KINGDOMES//.((Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) | ||
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| + | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| + | ====Alexander Stewart==== | ||
| + | Referred to as Sir Alexander, but no record of his knighthood exists. | ||
| + | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | =====See Also====== | ||
| + | ===== Links ===== | ||
