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| |**Active**|1639| | |**Active**|1639| | ||
| + | | |1649 to 1650| | ||
| |**Country**|Scotland| | |**Country**|Scotland| | ||
| |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | |**Allegiance**|Covenanter| | ||
| |**Conflicts**|First Bishops' War| | |**Conflicts**|First Bishops' War| | ||
| + | | |Third Civil War| | ||
| |**Type**|Horse| | |**Type**|Horse| | ||
| |**Colonel**|Earl of Loudon| | |**Colonel**|Earl of Loudon| | ||
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| |**Flag Design**|| | |**Flag Design**|| | ||
| |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1639| | |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1639| | ||
| + | | |Leslie 1650| | ||
| </WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
| - | //Covenanter Regiment of Horse of the Bishops' Wars, forming part of Leslie’s army // | + | //Covenanter Regiment of Horse of the Bishops' Wars, forming part of Leslie’s army, later a troop active in the Third Civil War // |
| ===== Service History ===== | ===== Service History ===== | ||
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| *June: Standoff at Duns Law | *June: Standoff at Duns Law | ||
| *June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks | *June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks | ||
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| + | ====1649==== | ||
| + | *Loudon presumably raises a troop of horse, perhaps from Whiggamores he'd led in 1648, it is sometimes known as the Lord Chancellor's Troop | ||
| + | *June: Loudon's troop is quartered in East Lothian | ||
| + | *July: A trooper prosecuted for fornication at Haddington | ||
| + | ====1650==== | ||
| + | *June: Ordered to East Lothian | ||
| + | *Join Leslie's army | ||
| + | *September: Battle of Dunbar | ||
| + | *The troop may have disbanded due to losses or perhaps remnants persisted to serve under Loudon, who fought at Worcester and joined Glencairn's rising in 1653 | ||
| =====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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| + | The Third Civil War troop might have been part of [[covenanter:horse-regiments:lord-mauchline|Lord Mauchline’s Regiment of Horse]]? | ||
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| =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
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| ====Earl of Loudon==== | ====Earl of Loudon==== | ||
| [[http://bcw-project.org/biography/john-campbell-earl-of-loudoun|John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudon]] | [[http://bcw-project.org/biography/john-campbell-earl-of-loudoun|John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudon]] | ||
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| - | * Loudon led 1200 horse and foot at Duns Law in 1639 | + | *1639: Loudon led 1200 horse and foot at Duns Law |
| + | *1649:100 men and a trumpeter in a single troop | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
