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| |**Type**|Foot| | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| |**Colonel**|Sir George Preston| | |**Colonel**|Sir George Preston| | ||
| - | |**Area Raised**| | | + | |**Area Raised**|Perthshire| |
| |**Coat Colour**|Grey?| | |**Coat Colour**|Grey?| | ||
| |**Flag Colour**|Red| | |**Flag Colour**|Red| | ||
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| ====1649=== | ====1649=== | ||
| - | *Raised | + | *February: Preston commissioned colonel to raise a regiment of foot in Perthshire |
| ====1650==== | ====1650==== | ||
| + | *Summer: Preston raises his regiment and joins Leslie | ||
| *3rd September: Battle of Dunbar | *3rd September: Battle of Dunbar | ||
| *At Stirling | *At Stirling | ||
| ====1651==== | ====1651==== | ||
| + | *April: One company at Dumbarton | ||
| + | *April: Ordered to quarter at the Head of the Forth | ||
| + | *May: Join the field army at Stirling | ||
| + | *May: Ordered to Renfrew | ||
| + | *June: Return to Stirling | ||
| *September: Battle of Worcester | *September: Battle of Worcester | ||
| =====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 | ||
| =====Coats and Flags===== | =====Coats and Flags===== | ||
| Flags of Preston's regiment were captured at Dunbar. The Colonel's is white with a black unicorn as a crest and a damaged scroll bearing the inscription //COVENANT... RELIG... KING...KINGDOM//. The others have red field with white saltire and black devices; label; star; crescent; martlet; and numbers. (( Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) | Flags of Preston's regiment were captured at Dunbar. The Colonel's is white with a black unicorn as a crest and a damaged scroll bearing the inscription //COVENANT... RELIG... KING...KINGDOM//. The others have red field with white saltire and black devices; label; star; crescent; martlet; and numbers. (( Stuart Reid's //Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours// Partizan Press 1988)) | ||
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| ====Sir George Preston of Valleyfield==== | ====Sir George Preston of Valleyfield==== | ||
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | *February 1649: 1200 to be raised, reduced to 900, but few are raised until summer 1650 | ||
| + | *June & July 1651: 234 men | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
