Colonel James Bremner’s Regiment of Dragoons

Obscure Covenanter dragoon regiment of the Third Civil War

• October: Lt Col Melville ordered to levy dragoons from Inverness, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland and Caithness
• December: Melville replaced by Colonel James Bremner
• December: Bremner allocated Orkney men and Capt Wardlaw's dragoons from Moray and Nairn

• January: Causing disturbances in Ross

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

After the raising of the dragoons in winter 1650-1, their subsequent history is still obscure.

Otherwise Brebner or Brymer, probably previously commanded Colonel James Bremner’s Regiment of Foot until it was destroyed at Dunbar.

• December 1650: Bremner to levy 272 dragoons