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| |**Flag Colour**| | | |**Flag Colour**| | | ||
| |**Flag Design**| | | |**Flag Design**| | | ||
| - | |**Field Armies**|Charles 1651| | + | |**Field Armies**|Leslie 1650| |
| + | | |Charles 1651| | ||
| </WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
| **Later the Earl of Linlithgow’s Regiment of Horse** | **Later the Earl of Linlithgow’s Regiment of Horse** | ||
| - | //Covenanter cavalry regiment raised in the Third Civil War fighting at Worcester // | + | //Covenanter cavalry regiment raised in the Third Civil War fighting at Dunbar and Worcester // |
| ===== Service History ===== | ===== Service History ===== | ||
| ====1649==== | ====1649==== | ||
| - | *February: Commissioned for 400 horse to be raised in Teviotdale and Selkirk | + | *February: Scott commissioned colonel for 400 horse to be raised in Teviotdale and Selkirk |
| + | *June: Scott's troop quartered at Nithsdale | ||
| + | *June to August: Lt Col William Ker of Newton sent to collect the Engager weaponry left at Berwick and Carlisle | ||
| ====1650==== | ====1650==== | ||
| + | *June: Ordered to Selkirk (Scott & Ker) and Lauderdale (Capt Scott) | ||
| + | *September: Battle of Dunbar | ||
| + | *October: Ordered to Stirling | ||
| *November: Quartered at Alyth | *November: Quartered at Alyth | ||
| + | *December: Col Scott dies and the regiment is given to the Earl of Linlithgow | ||
| ====1651==== | ====1651==== | ||
| - | *Scott dies and the regiment passes to the Earl of Linlithgow | ||
| *Quartered in Angus | *Quartered in Angus | ||
| *January: Recruits raised in Perthshire | *January: Recruits raised in Perthshire | ||
| - | *May: Assigned to the Montgomerie’s 2nd Cavalry Brigade | + | *May: Assigned to the Montgomery’s 2nd Cavalry Brigade |
| *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 | ||
| ===== Flags & Equipment===== | ===== Flags & Equipment===== | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
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| ====Earl of Linlithgow==== | ====Earl of Linlithgow==== | ||
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | *July 1649: 3 troops; Colonel Scott 60, Lt Col Ker 53, Capt Archibald Scott of Syntoun 50 | ||
| + | *August 1649: 227 levies planned from Selkirk & Teviotdale | ||
| + | *July 1650: 225 levies planned from Selkirk & Teviotdale | ||
| + | *Winter 1650-1: Recruits ordered from Perthshire and Kennedy of Kirkhill's horse | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
