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| + | ======Sir Walter Riddell of Riddell’s Foot====== | ||
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| + | <WRAP right> | ||
| + | |**Active**| 1644| | ||
| + | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| + | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| + | |**Conflicts**|First Civil War| | ||
| + | |**Type**|Foot| | ||
| + | |**Colonel**|Sir Walter Riddell| | ||
| + | |**Area Raised**|Roxburghshire| | ||
| + | |**Coat Colour**| | | ||
| + | |**Flag Colour**|| | ||
| + | |**Flag Design**|| | ||
| + | |**Field Armies**| | | ||
| + | </WRAP> | ||
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| + | //Covenanters fighting in the Borders area in 1644// | ||
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| + | ===== Service History ===== | ||
| + | ====1644==== | ||
| + | *Raised in Roxburghshire and rendezvous at Douglas | ||
| + | *Raid the Cumberland Royalists | ||
| + | *Riddell commissioned Lt Col of [[covenanter:foot-regiments:master-of-cranstoun|William, Master of Cranstoun’s Regiment of Foot]] | ||
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| + | =====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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| + | Riddell’s men were probably not formally regimented; Furgol labels them a ‘retinue’. They likely either disbanded or followed Riddell into Cranstoun’s foot. | ||
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| + | =====Flags and Equipment===== | ||
| + | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| + | ====Sir Walter Riddell of Riddell==== | ||
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| + | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | =====See Also====== | ||
| + | ===== Links ===== | ||
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