Colonel John Bright’s Regiment of Foot

Later, Colonel John Lambert’s, Charles Fleetwood’s, William Eyres’ and Thomas Birch’s Regiment of Foot

Parliamentarian regiment of foot of the Northern Association continuing to serve upto the Restoration

• January: Battle of Nantwich
• March: Taking of Bradford
• March: Battle of Hunslett
• April: Storm of Selby
• April to July: Siege of York
• 2nd July: Battle of Marston Moor
• July: Siege of York
• July to August: Siege of Sheffield Castle
• December to March 1645: Siege of Pontefract

• March: Battle of Pontefract

• July: Still serving in the Northern Association, the regiment elect agitators

• August: Battle of Preston
• August: Battle of Winwick Pass
• September: Siege of Carlisle
• October to March 1649: Siege of Pontefract

• March: Take Pontefract

• July: Quartered at Alnwick
• July: Bright resigns, Lambert takes over
• July: March on Scotland
• September: Battle of Dunbar

• September: Battle of Worcester

• July: Lambert dismissed, replaced by Fleetwood

• May: Lambert re-instated
• August: Battle of Winnington Bridge?

• January: Lambert replaced by Eyres
• February: Put down mutiny by Sir Bryce Cochrane’s Regiment of Foot at Gravesend
• Dispersed to Canterbury (5 coy), Dover (2 coy), Rye (2 coy) and Sandwich (1 coy)
• Eyres replaced by Birch
• October: Disbanded at St Neots

A history of the regiment is given in The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army by Sir Charles Firth and Godfrey Davies, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940.

During the 1645 Battle of Pontefract, “Colonel Bright… his regiment was clothed in green, lined yellow, and he upon a white horse was observed to be active in ordering his men. Extract from George Fox's “The Three Sieges of Pontefract Castle, The First Siege, page 45” (ISBN 0946534047).

Red coats during the Commonwealth and Protectorate.

John Bright

John Lambert

Charles Fleetwood

John Birch

Wrote an acoount of his Civil War experiences.

Colonel John Bright

• Lieutenant Colonel Simon Needham (20/03/46 - 20/07/46)

• 1660: 10 Companies

Bright's Regiment of Foot are re-enacted by John Bright's Regiment of Foote of the English Civil War Society.